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Word Study · Strong's H3547 · Hebrew

כָּהַן

kahan

kaw-han'

Strong's 1890 spelling: kâhan

to officiate as a priest

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

to officiate as a priest; figuratively, to put on regalia

Rendered in the KJV as

deck, be (do the office of a, execute the, minister in the) priest('s office).

  • 23
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 15
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 23 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 15

  • לְכַהֵֽן׃4
  • לְכַהֲנוֹ־3
  • לְכַהֵ֣ן2
  • לְכַהֵ֥ן2
  • לְכַהֵ֖ן2
  • וַיְכַהֵ֤ן1
  • וַיְכַהֵ֛ן1
  • וַֽיְכַהֲנ֔וּ1
  • וְכִהֵ֥ן1
  • וְכִהֲנ֥וּ1
  • וְכִהֲנ֖וּ1
  • יְכַהֵ֣ן1

and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 11

  • to serve as priests9
  • to serve as priest he3
  • and he served as priest2
  • and they will serve as priests2
  • [who] he acts like a priest1
  • and he will serve as a priest1
  • and they served as priests1
  • from serving as a priest1
  • from serving as priests1
  • he served as a priest1
  • to serve as priest1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 8

  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)12
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3
  • Hc/Vpq3cp2
  • Hc/Vpw3ms2
  • Hc/Vpq3ms1
  • Hc/Vpw3mp1
  • verb · intensive (piel), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular1
  • verb · intensive (piel), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HR/Vpcc · 12
  • HR/Vpcc/Sp3ms · 3
  • Hc/Vpq3cp · 2
  • Hc/Vpw3ms · 2
  • Hc/Vpq3ms · 1
  • Hc/Vpw3mp · 1
  • HVpi3ms · 1
  • HVpp3ms · 1

All 23, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Exodus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Exodus12 occurrences
Leviticus2 occurrences
Numbers2 occurrences
Deuteronomy1 occurrence
1 Chronicles2 occurrences
2 Chronicles1 occurrence
Isaiah1 occurrence
Ezekiel1 occurrence
Hosea1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).