כָּהֵן
kâhên · H3549 · Aramaic · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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priest
Person ordained and consecrated to perform religious services on behalf of others
ExamplesEzra 6:9 “And whatever is needed, bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine, and anointing oil, as the priests in Jerusalem order, it is to be given to them daily without fail,
Ezra 6:16 And the sons of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.
Ezra 6:18 Then they appointed the priests to their divisions and the Levites in their sections for the service of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יְרוּשָׁלֵםJerusalem 1
- נְדַבfreewill 1
Named alongside itApposition
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עֶזְרָאEzra 2
- בֵּןchild 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קוּםappoint 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מֵאמַרappointment 1
- נְדַבfreewill 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- כֹּהֵן kôhên · H3548 · priest
- כָּהֵן (kâhên, H3549) (Aramaic כָּהֵן) is the direct Aramaic cognate reflex of כֹּהֵן (kôhên, H3548) (Hebrew כֹּהֵן), both denoting 'priest' from the shared root כהן; the two function as cross-linguistic equivalents in their respective sister languages within the biblical corpus.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Priests001001003008
- Ezra 6:16 recounts that “the sons of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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