כֹּהֵן
ko.hen
1. priest, principal officer or chief ruler
a. priest-king (Melchizedek, Messiah)
b. pagan priests
c. priests of Jehovah
d. Levitical priests
e. Zadokite priests
f. Aaronic priests
g. the high priest
Aramaic equivalent: ka.hen (כָּהֵן "priest" H3549)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 653 verses
- 1 Kings 8:11 הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים
so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 12:31 כֹּֽהֲנִים֙
Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
- 1 Kings 12:32 כֹּהֲנֵ֥י
And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.
- 1 Kings 13:2 כֹּהֲנֵ֤י
And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”
- 1 Kings 13:33 כֹּהֲנֵ֣יכֹּהֲנֵ֥י
Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.
- 2 Kings 10:11 וְכֹהֲנָ֑יו
So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his great men and close friends and priests, leaving him without a single survivor.
- 2 Kings 10:19 כֹּהֲנָיו֩
Now, therefore, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. See that no one is missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing will not live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.
- 2 Kings 11:9 הַכֹּהֵן֒הַכֹּהֵֽן׃
So the commanders of hundreds did everything that Jehoiada the priest had ordered. Each of them took his men—those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty—and came to Jehoiada the priest.
- 2 Kings 11:10 הַכֹּהֵ֜ן
Then the priest gave to the commanders of hundreds the spears and shields of King David from the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 11:15 הַכֹּהֵ֜ןהַכֹּהֵ֔ן
And Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of hundreds in charge of the army, “Bring her out between the ranks, and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the house of the LORD.”
- 2 Kings 11:18 כֹּהֵ֣ןהַכֹּהֵ֛ן
So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And Jehoiada the priest posted guards for the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 12:2 הַכֹּהֵֽן׃
And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days he was instructed by Jehoiada the priest.
- 2 Kings 12:4 הַכֹּהֲנִ֗ים
Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 12:5 הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.”
- 2 Kings 12:6 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים
By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple.
- 2 Kings 12:7 הַכֹּהֵן֙וְלַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”
- 2 Kings 12:8 הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֑ים
So the priests agreed that they would not receive money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.
- 2 Kings 12:9 הַכֹּהֵן֙הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙
Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 12:10 וְהַכֹּהֵ֣ן
Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would go up, count the money brought into the house of the LORD, and tie it up in bags.
- 2 Kings 12:16 לַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים
The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
- 2 Kings 16:10 הַכֹּהֵ֗ן
Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.
- 2 Kings 16:11 הַכֹּהֵ֖ןהַכֹּהֵ֔ן
And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it by the time King Ahaz had returned.
- 2 Kings 16:15 הַכֹּהֵ֜ן
Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and grain offering, as well as the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings of all the people of the land. Sprinkle on the altar all the blood of the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar to seek guidance.”
- 2 Kings 16:16 הַכֹּהֵ֑ן
So Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had commanded.
- 2 Kings 17:27 מֵהַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙
Then the king of Assyria commanded: “Send back one of the priests you carried off from Samaria, and have him go back to live there and teach the requirements of the God of the land.”
- 2 Kings 17:28 מֵהַכֹּהֲנִ֗ים
Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.
- 2 Kings 17:32 כֹּהֲנֵ֣י
So the new residents worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed for themselves priests of all sorts to serve in the shrines of the high places.
- 2 Kings 19:2 הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֔ים
And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz
- 2 Kings 22:4 הַכֹּהֵ֣ן
“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
- 2 Kings 22:8 הַכֹּהֵ֤ן
Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan, who read it.
- 2 Kings 22:10 הַכֹּהֵ֑ן
Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.
- 2 Kings 22:12 הַכֹּהֵ֡ן
and commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king:
- 2 Kings 22:14 הַ֠כֹּהֵן
So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.
- 2 Kings 23:2 וְהַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙
And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 23:4 הַכֹּהֵ֨ןכֹּהֲנֵ֣י
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
- 2 Kings 23:8 הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which was to the left of the city gate.
- 2 Kings 23:9 כֹּהֲנֵ֣י
Although the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
- 2 Kings 23:20 כֹּהֲנֵ֨י
On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 23:24 הַכֹּהֵ֖ן
Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 25:18 כֹּהֵ֣ןכֹּהֵ֣ן
The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
- 1 Chronicles 9:2 הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.
- 1 Chronicles 9:10 הַֽכֹּהֲנִ֑ים
From the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, and Jachin;
- 1 Chronicles 9:30 הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
And some of the sons of the priests mixed the spices.
- 1 Chronicles 13:2 הַכֹּהֲנִ֥ים
And he said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if this is of the LORD our God, let us send word far and wide to the rest of our brothers in all the land of Israel, and also to the priests and Levites in their cities and pasturelands, so that they may join us.
- 1 Chronicles 15:11 הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֑ים
David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.
- 1 Chronicles 15:14 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים
So the priests and Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 15:24 הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer—the priests—were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were also to be guardians of the ark.
- 1 Chronicles 16:6 הַכֹּהֲנִ֑ים
and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.
- 1 Chronicles 16:39 הַכֹּהֵ֗ןהַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon
- 1 Chronicles 18:16 כֹּהֲנִ֑ים
Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was the scribe;