Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H3549
כָּהֵן
kahenkaw-hane'
priest
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâhên
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3549is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3549
{one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)}
The King James renders it: priest.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kahen is rendered "priest". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Eight of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 6:9Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, as well as wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem—must be given to them daily without fail.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, as well as wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem—must be given to them daily without fail.
Ezra 6:9כָּהֲנַיָּ֤א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's eight uses are in Ezra.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- priests the4
- priest the2
- and priests its1
- and priests the1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְכָהֲנ֣וֹהִי1
- וְכָֽהֲנַיָּא֙1
- כָ֠הֲנָא1
- כָהֲנָ֜ה1
- כָהֲנַיָּ֜א1
- כָּהֲנַיָּ֤א1
- כָּהֲנַיָּ֨א1
- כָּהֲנַיָּ֣א1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)4ANcmpd/Ta
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)2ANcbsd/Ta
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1AC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1AC/Ncmpd/Ta
Ezra
eight uses
Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, as well as wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem—must be given to them daily without fail.
- כָּהֲנַיָּ֤אkahanaiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: priests the
Then the people of Israel—the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles—celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy.
- כָּהֲנַיָּ֨אkahanaiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: priests the
They also appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their groups to the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.
- כָהֲנַיָּ֜אkhahanaiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: priests the
Artaxerxes, king of kings. To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven: Greetings.
- כָ֠הֲנָאkhahana'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: priest the
I hereby decree that any volunteers among the Israelites in my kingdom, including the priests and Levites, may go up with you to Jerusalem.
- וְכָהֲנ֣וֹהִיvekhahanohiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and priests its
together with all the silver and gold you may find in all the province of Babylon, as well as the freewill offerings of the people and priests to the house of their God in Jerusalem.
- וְכָֽהֲנַיָּא֙vekhahanaiya'conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: and priests the
I, King Artaxerxes, decree to all the treasurers west of the Euphrates: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, may require of you, it must be provided promptly,
- כָהֲנָ֜הkhahanah'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: priest the
And be advised that you have no authority to impose tribute, duty, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.
- כָּהֲנַיָּ֣אkahanaiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: priests the
The letters
Gematria 75· 725 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.