Strong's Concordance H3881

Original Word: לֵוִיִּי
Transliteration: Lêvîyîy
Phonetic Spelling: lay-vee-ee'
or לֵוִי; patronymically from H3878; a Levite or descendant of Levi; Leviite.

Usages throughout the bible

2 Chronicles 23:6 - But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; H3881 they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 23:7 - And the Levites H3881 shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.

2 Chronicles 23:8 - So the Levites H3881 and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.

2 Chronicles 23:18 - Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, H3881 whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.

2 Chronicles 24:5 - And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, H3881 and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites H3881 hastened it not.

2 Chronicles 24:6 - And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites H3881 to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?

2 Chronicles 24:11 - Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, H3881 and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

2 Chronicles 29:4 - And he brought in the priests and the Levites, H3881 and gathered them together into the east street,

2 Chronicles 29:5 - And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, H3881 sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

2 Chronicles 29:12 - Then the Levites H3881 arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:

2 Chronicles 29:16 - And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites H3881 took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.

2 Chronicles 29:25 - And he set the Levites H3881 in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

2 Chronicles 29:26 - And the Levites H3881 stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

2 Chronicles 29:30 - Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites H3881 to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.

2 Chronicles 29:34 - But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites H3881 did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites H3881 were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

2 Chronicles 30:15 - Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites H3881 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 sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites. H3881

2 Chronicles 30:17 - For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites H3881 had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

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 H3881 and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.

2 Chronicles 30:22 - And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites H3881 that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 30:25 - And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, H3881 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 the Levites H3881 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 and the Levites H3881 after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites H3881 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 and the Levites, H3881 that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 31:9 - Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites H3881 concerning the heaps.

2 Chronicles 31:12 - And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite H3881 was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.

2 Chronicles 31:14 - And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, H3881 the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.

2 Chronicles 31:17 - Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites H3881 from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;

2 Chronicles 31:19 - Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, 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, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites. H3881

2 Chronicles 34:9 - And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites H3881 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 34:12 - And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, H3881 of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, H3881 all that could skill of instruments of musick.

2 Chronicles 34:13 - Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites H3881 there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

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, and the Levites, H3881 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 35:3 - And said unto the Levites H3881 that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,

2 Chronicles 35:5 - And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites. H3881

2 Chronicles 35:8 - And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: H3881 Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.

2 Chronicles 35:9 - Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, H3881 gave unto the Levites H3881 for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.

2 Chronicles 35:10 - So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites H3881 in their courses, according to the king's commandment.

2 Chronicles 35:11 - And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites H3881 flayed them.

2 Chronicles 35:14 - And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites H3881 prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

2 Chronicles 35:15 - And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites H3881 prepared for them.

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, and the Levites, H3881 and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Ezra 1:5 - Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, H3881 with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.

Ezra 2:40 - The Levites: H3881 the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

Ezra 2:70 - So the priests, and the Levites, H3881 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 3:8 - 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 and the Levites, H3881 and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, H3881 from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

Ezra 3:9 - Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites. H3881

Ezra 3:10 - And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites H3881 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 and Levites H3881 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 and the Levites H3881 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, and for themselves.