כְּהֻנָּה
kᵉhunnâh · H3550 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences
Meanings
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priesthood
A role in which humans, through a process of ordination and consecration, are responsible for performing religious services on behalf of others
ExamplesExodus 29:9 “And you shall wrap their waists with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and fit caps on them, and they shall have the priesthood by a permanent statute. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
Exodus 40:15 and you shall anoint them just as you have anointed their father, so that they may serve as priests to Me; and their anointing will qualify them for a permanent priesthood throughout their generations.”
Numbers 3:10 “So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons that they may keep their priesthood, but the layman who comes near shall be put to death.”
How it’s used In 7 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
7 occurrences in 4 groups
- כֶםyour 3
- עוֹלָםforever 2
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
- הֶםtheir 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶחָדone 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- שָׁמַרto keep, to guard, to observe 2
- בָּקַשׁto seek, to search, to look for 1
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נַחֲלָהinheritance, heritage 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- מִןfrom 4
- אֵלto, toward 2
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- בְּרִיתcovenant, treaty 2
- גֹּאֶלdefilement 1
- עָוֺןiniquity 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
- ἱερατεία hierateía · G2405 · priesthood, to be a priest
- Greek ἱερατεία renders Hebrew כְּהֻנָּה as the direct lexical equivalent for the abstract noun denoting the office/function of priesthood itself, distinguished from terms denoting individual priests (persons) or priestly service (acts).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Role002002002008
- The noun names the priesthood, the office and role held by those consecrated to serve as priests, in keeping with its glossed sense "priesthood, priest's office."
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3550. kehunnah כְּהֻנָּה noun feminine priesthood; — absolute ׳כ Exo 29:9 Exo 29:5t.;…
כְּהֻנָּה noun feminine priesthood; — absolute ׳כ Exo 29:9 Exo 29:5t.; construct כְּהֻנַּת Num 25:13 Num 25:2t.; suffix כְּהֻנַּתְכֶם Num 18:1, Num 18:7 (twice in verse); כְּהֻנָּתָם Num 3:10; plural כְּהֻנּוֺת 1Sa 2:36. — יהוה כהנת priesthood of ׳י, the portion of the Levites Jos 18:7 (D); plural priest's offices 1Sa 2:36; elsewhere Exo 29:9; Exo 40:15; Num 3:10; Num 16:10; Num 18:1, Num 18:7 (twice in verse); Num 25:13 (all P), Ezr 2:62 = Neh 7:64; Neh 13:29 (twice in verse).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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