Kohen כֹּהֵן

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Kohen
כֹּהֵן
Transliterationkohen
Strong's numberH3548
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glosspriest
Occurrences750 in 653 verses
Most frequent inLeviticus (153)

Kohen (Hebrew כֹּהֵן, Strong's H3548) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “priest”. It occurs 750 times in 653 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) priest, principal officer or chief ruler
1a) priest-king (Melchizedek, Messiah)
1b) pagan priests
1c) priests of Jehovah
1d) Levitical priests
1e) Zadokite priests
1f) Aaronic priests
1g) the high priest
Aramaic equivalent: ka.hen (כָּהֵן "priest" H3549)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVpriest (422), priests (306), priest's (16), own (2), rulers (1), ruler (1), officer (1), princes (1)
BSBpriest (374), priests (236), this way the priest (8), among the priests (6), her priests (6), were priests (5), his priests (5), priestly (4), he (3), priest's (3), while the priests (3), well as the priests (3), and 52 other renderings

Topics

Verses

Kohen occurs in 653 verses, listed here by reference.

Genesis (6): 14:18, 41:45, 41:50, 46:20, 47:22, 47:26

Exodus (11): 2:16, 3:1, 18:1, 19:6, 19:22, 19:24, 29:30, 31:10, 35:19, 38:21, 39:41

Leviticus (153): 1:5, 1:7, 1:8, 1:9, 1:11, 1:12, 1:13, 1:15, 1:17, 2:2, 2:8, 2:9, 2:16, 3:2, 3:11, 3:16, 4:3, 4:5, 4:6, 4:7, 4:10, 4:16, 4:17, 4:20, 4:25, 4:26, 4:30, 4:31, 4:34, 4:35, 5:6, 5:8, 5:10, 5:12, 5:13, 5:16, 5:18, 6:6, 6:7, 6:10, 6:12, 6:22, 6:23, 6:26, 6:29, 7:5, 7:6, 7:7, 7:8, 7:9, 7:14, 7:31, 7:32, 7:34, 12:6, 12:8, 13:2, 13:3, 13:4, 13:5, 13:6, 13:7, 13:8, 13:9, 13:10, 13:11, 13:12, 13:13, 13:15, 13:16, 13:17, 13:19, 13:20, 13:21, 13:22, 13:23, 13:25, 13:26, 13:27, 13:28, 13:30, 13:31, 13:32, 13:33, 13:34, 13:36, 13:37, 13:39, 13:43, 13:44, 13:49, 13:50, 13:53, 13:54, 13:55, 13:56, 14:2, 14:3, 14:4, 14:5, 14:11, 14:12, 14:13, 14:14, 14:15, 14:16, 14:17, 14:18, 14:19, 14:20, 14:23, 14:24, 14:25, 14:26, 14:27, 14:28, 14:29, 14:31, 14:35, 14:36, 14:38, 14:39, 14:40, 14:44, 14:48, 15:14, 15:15, 15:29, 15:30, 16:32, 16:33, 17:5, 17:6, 19:22, 21:1, 21:9, 21:10, 21:21, 22:10, 22:11, 22:12, 22:13, 22:14, 23:10, 23:11, 23:20, 27:8, 27:11, 27:12, 27:14, 27:18, 27:21, 27:23

Numbers (63): 3:3, 3:6, 3:32, 4:16, 4:28, 4:33, 5:8, 5:9, 5:10, 5:15, 5:16, 5:17, 5:18, 5:19, 5:21, 5:23, 5:25, 5:26, 5:30, 6:10, 6:11, 6:16, 6:17, 6:19, 6:20, 7:8, 10:8, 15:25, 15:28, 16:37, 16:39, 18:28, 19:3, 19:4, 19:6, 19:7, 25:7, 25:11, 26:1, 26:3, 26:63, 26:64, 27:2, 27:19, 27:21, 27:22, 31:6, 31:12, 31:13, 31:21, 31:26, 31:29, 31:31, 31:41, 31:51, 31:54, 32:2, 32:28, 33:38, 34:17, 35:25, 35:28, 35:32

Deuteronomy (13): 17:9, 17:12, 17:18, 18:1, 18:3, 19:17, 20:2, 21:5, 24:8, 26:3, 26:4, 27:9, 31:9

Joshua (34): 3:3, 3:6, 3:8, 3:13, 3:14, 3:15, 3:17, 4:3, 4:9, 4:10, 4:11, 4:16, 4:17, 4:18, 6:4, 6:6, 6:8, 6:9, 6:12, 6:13, 6:16, 8:33, 14:1, 17:4, 19:51, 20:6, 21:1, 21:4, 21:13, 21:19, 22:13, 22:30, 22:31, 22:32

Judges (13): 17:5, 17:10, 17:12, 17:13, 18:4, 18:6, 18:17, 18:18, 18:19, 18:20, 18:24, 18:27, 18:30

1 Samuel (26): 1:3, 1:9, 2:11, 2:13, 2:14, 2:15, 2:28, 2:35, 5:5, 6:2, 14:3, 14:19, 14:36, 21:1, 21:2, 21:4, 21:5, 21:6, 21:9, 22:11, 22:17, 22:18, 22:19, 22:21, 23:9, 30:7

2 Samuel (8): 8:17, 8:18, 15:27, 15:35, 17:15, 19:11, 20:25, 20:26

1 Kings (28): 1:7, 1:8, 1:19, 1:25, 1:26, 1:32, 1:34, 1:38, 1:39, 1:42, 1:44, 1:45, 2:22, 2:26, 2:27, 2:35, 4:2, 4:4, 4:5, 8:3, 8:4, 8:6, 8:10, 8:11, 12:31, 12:32, 13:2, 13:33

2 Kings (35): 10:11, 10:19, 11:9, 11:10, 11:15, 11:18, 12:2, 12:4, 12:5, 12:6, 12:7, 12:8, 12:9, 12:10, 12:16, 16:10, 16:11, 16:15, 16:16, 17:27, 17:28, 17:32, 19:2, 22:4, 22:8, 22:10, 22:12, 22:14, 23:2, 23:4, 23:8, 23:9, 23:20, 23:24, 25:18

1 Chronicles (17): 9:2, 9:10, 9:30, 13:2, 15:11, 15:14, 15:24, 16:6, 16:39, 18:16, 23:2, 24:6, 24:31, 27:5, 28:13, 28:21, 29:22

2 Chronicles (72): 4:6, 4:9, 5:5, 5:7, 5:11, 5:12, 5:14, 6:41, 7:2, 7:6, 8:14, 8:15, 11:13, 11:15, 13:9, 13:10, 13:12, 13:14, 15:3, 17:8, 19:8, 19:11, 22:11, 23:4, 23:6, 23:8, 23:9, 23:14, 23:17, 23:18, 24:2, 24:5, 24:11, 24:20, 24:25, 26:17, 26:18, 26:19, 26:20, 29:4, 29:16, 29:21, 29:22, 29:24, 29:26, 29:34, 30:3, 30:15, 30:16, 30:21, 30:24, 30:25, 30:27, 31:2, 31:4, 31:9, 31:10, 31:15, 31:17, 31:19, 34:5, 34:9, 34:14, 34:18, 34:30, 35:2, 35:8, 35:10, 35:11, 35:14, 35:18, 36:14

Ezra (25): 1:5, 2:36, 2:61, 2:63, 2:69, 2:70, 3:2, 3:8, 3:10, 3:12, 6:20, 7:5, 7:7, 7:11, 8:15, 8:24, 8:29, 8:30, 8:33, 9:1, 9:7, 10:5, 10:10, 10:16, 10:18

Nehemiah (42): 2:16, 3:1, 3:20, 3:22, 3:28, 5:12, 7:39, 7:63, 7:65, 7:70, 7:72, 7:73, 8:2, 8:9, 8:13, 9:32, 9:34, 9:38, 10:8, 10:28, 10:34, 10:36, 10:37, 10:38, 10:39, 11:3, 11:10, 11:20, 12:1, 12:7, 12:12, 12:22, 12:26, 12:30, 12:35, 12:41, 12:44, 13:4, 13:5, 13:13, 13:28, 13:30

Job (1): 12:19

Psalms (5): 78:64, 99:6, 110:4, 132:9, 132:16

Isaiah (6): 8:2, 24:2, 28:7, 37:2, 61:6, 66:21

Jeremiah (38): 1:1, 1:18, 2:8, 2:26, 4:9, 5:31, 6:13, 8:1, 8:10, 13:13, 14:18, 18:18, 19:1, 20:1, 21:1, 23:11, 23:33, 23:34, 26:7, 26:8, 26:11, 26:16, 27:16, 28:1, 28:5, 29:1, 29:25, 29:26, 29:29, 31:14, 32:32, 33:18, 33:21, 34:19, 37:3, 48:7, 49:3, 52:24

Lamentations (6): 1:4, 1:19, 2:6, 2:20, 4:13, 4:16

Ezekiel (23): 1:3, 7:26, 22:26, 40:45, 40:46, 42:13, 42:14, 43:19, 43:24, 43:27, 44:15, 44:21, 44:22, 44:30, 44:31, 45:4, 45:19, 46:2, 46:19, 46:20, 48:10, 48:11, 48:13

Hosea (4): 4:4, 4:9, 5:1, 6:9

Joel (3): 1:9, 1:13, 2:17

Amos (1): 7:10

Micah (1): 3:11

Zephaniah (2): 1:4, 3:4

Haggai (8): 1:1, 1:12, 1:14, 2:2, 2:4, 2:11, 2:12, 2:13

Zechariah (6): 3:1, 3:8, 6:11, 6:13, 7:3, 7:5

Malachi (3): 1:6, 2:1, 2:7

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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