Strong's Concordance H3548

Original Word: כֹּהֵן
Transliteration: kôhên
Phonetic Spelling: ko-hane'
active participle of H3547; literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman); chief ruler, × own, priest, prince, principal officer.

Usages throughout the bible

2 Chronicles 29:24 - And the priests H3548 killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:26 - And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests H3548 with the trumpets.

2 Chronicles 29:34 - But the priests H3548 were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests H3548 had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. H3548

2 Chronicles 30:3 - For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests H3548 had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 30:15 - Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests H3548 and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 30:16 - And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests H3548 sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.

2 Chronicles 30:21 - And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests H3548 praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.

2 Chronicles 30:24 - For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests H3548 sanctified themselves.

2 Chronicles 30:25 - And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests H3548 and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

2 Chronicles 30:27 - Then the priests H3548 the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.

2 Chronicles 31:2 - And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests H3548 and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests H3548 and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 31:4 - Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests H3548 and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 31:9 - Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests H3548 and the Levites concerning the heaps.

2 Chronicles 31:10 - And Azariah the chief priest H3548 of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.

2 Chronicles 31:15 - And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, H3548 in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:

2 Chronicles 31:17 - Both to the genealogy of the priests H3548 by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;

2 Chronicles 31:19 - Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, H3548 which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, H3548 and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.

2 Chronicles 34:5 - And he burnt the bones of the priests H3548 upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:9 - And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, H3548 they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:14 - And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest H3548 found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.

2 Chronicles 34:18 - Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest H3548 hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

2 Chronicles 34:30 - And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, H3548 and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 35:2 - And he set the priests H3548 in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,

2 Chronicles 35:8 - And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, H3548 and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests H3548 for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.

2 Chronicles 35:10 - So the service was prepared, and the priests H3548 stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.

2 Chronicles 35:11 - And they killed the passover, and the priests H3548 sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.

2 Chronicles 35:14 - And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: H3548 because the priests H3548 the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests H3548 the sons of Aaron.

2 Chronicles 35:18 - And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, H3548 and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:14 - Moreover all the chief of the priests, H3548 and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

Ezra 1:5 - Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, H3548 and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.

Ezra 2:36 - The priests: H3548 the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

Ezra 2:61 - And of the children of the priests: H3548 the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:

Ezra 2:63 - And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest H3548 with Urim and with Thummim.

Ezra 2:69 - They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' H3548 garments.

Ezra 2:70 - So the priests, H3548 and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

Ezra 3:2 - Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, H3548 and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

Ezra 3:8 - Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests H3548 and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

Ezra 3:10 - And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests H3548 in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

Ezra 3:12 - But many of the priests H3548 and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

Ezra 6:20 - For the priests H3548 and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, H3548 and for themselves.

Ezra 7:5 - The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest: H3548

Ezra 7:7 - And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, H3548 and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

Ezra 7:11 - Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, H3548 the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.

Ezra 8:15 - And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, H3548 and found there none of the sons of Levi.

Ezra 8:24 - Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, H3548 Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

Ezra 8:29 - Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests H3548 and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.

Ezra 8:30 - So took the priests H3548 and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.

Ezra 8:33 - Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; H3548 and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;

Ezra 9:1 - Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, H3548 and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Ezra 9:7 - Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, H3548 been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.