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Word Study · Strong's H3548 · Hebrew

כֹּהֵן

kohen

ko-hane'

Strong's 1890 spelling: kôhên

literally one officiating, a priest

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)

Rendered in the KJV as

chief ruler, [idiom] own, priest, prince, principal officer.

  • 750
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 14 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 113
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 113

  • הַכֹּהֵ֔ן51
  • הַכֹּהֵ֖ן38
  • הַכֹּהֵ֛ן34
  • הַכֹּהֵן֙33
  • הַכֹּהֵ֜ן30
  • הַכֹּהֵ֗ן29
  • הַכֹּהֵֽן׃22
  • הַכֹּהֵ֑ן19
  • הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים16
  • הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים14
  • הַכֹּהֵ֤ן10
  • הַכֹּהֵ֣ן9

and 101 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 37

  • the priest308
  • the priests80
  • to the priest13
  • a priest11
  • and the priests11
  • [the] priest of8
  • [the] priests of8
  • [were] priests6
  • and the priest6
  • priests6
  • into a priest4
  • for the priest3

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

How it parses · 22

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular309
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural80
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular17
  • noun · masculine singular14
  • noun · masculine plural12
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural11
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)11
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural11
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)8
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular6
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular6
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 309
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 80
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 17
  • HNcmsa · 14
  • HNcmpa · 12
  • HC/Td/Ncmpa · 11
  • HNcmpc · 11
  • HRd/Ncmpa · 11
  • HNcmsc · 8
  • HC/Td/Ncmsa · 6
  • HR/Ncmsa · 6
  • HC/R/Ncmsa · 2

The first 500 of 750, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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

Genesis7 occurrences
Exodus11 occurrences
Leviticus194 occurrences
Numbers69 occurrences
Deuteronomy14 occurrences
Joshua37 occurrences
Judges15 occurrences
1 Samuel32 occurrences
2 Samuel9 occurrences
1 Kings29 occurrences
2 Kings44 occurrences
1 Chronicles19 occurrences
2 Chronicles15 occurrences
Psalms5 occurrences
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).