329 occurrences

'Priests' in the Bible

Only he did not take the land of the priests, for the priests had their food given them by Pharaoh, and having what Pharaoh gave them, they had no need to give up their land.

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersDividing Food

Then Joseph made a law which is in force to this day, that Pharaoh was to have the fifth part; only the land of the priests did not become his.

Verse ConceptsHuman LawStatutes To This Day

And let the priests who come near to the Lord make themselves holy, for fear that the Lord may come on them suddenly.

Verse ConceptsConsecrationBreaking ForthMaking People Holypriests

And the Lord said to him, Go down, and you and Aaron may come up; but let not the priests and the people make their way through to the Lord, or he will come on them suddenly.

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesGoing Up MountainsMan Going DownBreaking Forth

Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons.

Verse ConceptsLeaders, SpiritualPriests, Function In Ot TimesPriests, Institution In Ot TimesServanthood, And Worship Of GodAaron, As High PriestMinisters, Description OfTypes Of Christ

This is what they are to make: a priest's bag, an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of coloured needlework, a head-dress, and a linen band; they are to make holy robes for Aaron your brother and for his sons, so that they may do the work of priests for me.

Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestephodsHead coveringHigh Priest, In OtRobesDressPlaitingTurban And Caps

These you are to put on Aaron, your brother, and on his sons, putting oil on them, separating them and making them holy, to do the work of priests to me.

Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestAnointing With OilHoliness, Purpose OfOrdinationPriesthood, In OtConsecrationAnointing PriestsGod Appointing OthersMaking People HolyAnointing

And put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and the head-dresses on them, to make them priests by my order for ever: so you are to make Aaron and his sons holy to me.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesPriesthood, In OtPriests, Institution In Ot TimesConsecrationPerpetual StatutesDressGod Appointing OthersTurban And Caps

Then take the fat of the sheep, the fat tail, the fat covering the insides, and the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and the right leg; for by the offering of this sheep they are to be marked out as priests:

Verse ConceptsLiversConsecrationAnimal Sacrifices, Wave OfferingTailsResidueThighs Of AnimalsFat Of The SacrificesGod Appointing OthersOther Right Partslungs

And Aaron's holy robes will be used by his sons after him; they will put them on when they are made priests.

Verse ConceptsAnointing PriestsPriests GarmentsGod Appointing Others

All those things which were used as offerings to take away sin, and to make them holy to be priests, they may have for food: but no one who is not a priest may have them, for they are holy food.

Verse ConceptsStrangersPriests Atoning

All these things you are to do to Aaron and his sons as I have given you orders: for seven days the work of making them priests is to go on.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesSeven DaysGod Appointing Others

I will make holy the Tent of meeting and the altar: and Aaron and his sons I will make holy, to be my priests

Verse ConceptsAtonement, in OTPriests, Institution In Ot TimesServanthood, And Worship Of GodSetting Up The Bronze AltarSanctification

And the robes of needlework, the holy robes for Aaron and for his sons, for their use when acting as priests,

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtPriests, Function In Ot TimesPriests Garments

And Moses said, You have made yourselves priests to the Lord this day; for every one of you has made the offering of his son and his brother; the blessing of the Lord is on you this day.

Verse ConceptsSanctification, Nature And BasisConsecrationGod Appointing OthersMay God Bless!

The robes of needlework for the work of the holy place, the holy robes for Aaron the priest, and the robes for his sons when acting as priests.

Verse ConceptsClothPriests, Function In Ot TimesPriests Garments

The robes for use in the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron and his sons when acting as priests.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesPriests Garments

And put oil on them as you did on their father, so that they may be my priests: the putting on of oil will make them priests for ever, from generation to generation.

Verse ConceptsPriesthood, In OtThe Act Of AnointingAnointing Priests

And the ox is to be put to death before the Lord: then Aaron's sons, the priests, are to take the blood and put some of it on and round the altar which is at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesSprinklingSprinkling BloodSacrifices At The DoorwaySetting Up The Bronze AltarKilling Sacrifices

And Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put fire on the altar and put the wood in order on the fire:

Verse ConceptsPutting In OrderBurning SacrificesFirewood

And Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put the parts, the head and the fat, in order on the wood which is on the fire on the altar:

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesPutting In OrderFat Of The Sacrifices

And he is to put it to death on the north side of the altar before the Lord: and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar.

Verse ConceptsSprinkling BloodNorth Of The AltarKilling Sacrifices

And let him take it to Aaron's sons, the priests; and having taken in his hand some of the meal and of the oil, with all the perfume, let him give it to the priest to be burned on the altar, as a sign, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFlourAromasGrain OfferingPriests, Function In Ot TimesSmellsOther Volume MeasuresRefreshing God

And he is to put his hand on the head of his offering and put it to death at the door of the Tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar.

Verse ConceptsFellowship OfferingSprinklingLaying On Of HandsSprinkling BloodHands On HeadsSacrifices At The DoorwayLaying Hands On SacrificesKilling Sacrifices

Every male among the priests may take it for his food: it is most holy.

Verse ConceptsMen WorshippingPermitted To Eat Offerings

Every male among the priests may have it as food in a holy place: it is most holy.

Verse ConceptsMen WorshippingFood For Priests DefinedPermitted To Eat Offerings

This is the holy part given to Aaron and to his sons, out of the offerings made to the Lord by fire, on the day when they were made priests before the Lord;

Verse ConceptsPriestly Inheritance

Which the Lord said the children of Israel were to give them, on the day when he made them his priests. It is their right for ever from generation to generation.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesAnointing Priests

These are the laws for the burned offering, the meal offering, and the offering for wrongdoing; and for the making of priests, and for the giving of peace-offerings;

Verse ConceptsAaron, Priestly ResponsibilitiesOrdinationConsecrationGod Appointing OthersRegulations For Cereal OfferingsRegulations For The Sin OfferingRegulating SacrificesPeace offeringsMeat offerings

And he put the other sheep before the Lord, the sheep with which they were made priests; and Aaron and his sons put their hands on the head of the sheep,

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesRamsConsecrationHands On HeadsLaying Hands On SacrificesGod Appointing Others

If a man has on his skin a growth or a mark or a white place, and it becomes the disease of a leper, let him be taken to Aaron the priest, or to one of the priests, his sons;

Verse ConceptsLaw, OtHuman SkinBlemished People

And he will make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin; he will take away sin from the priests and from all the people.

Verse ConceptsPriests Atoning

And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, Let no man make himself unclean for the dead among his people;

Verse ConceptsHoliness,  Worldly SeparationPriests, Function In Ot TimesPollutionsPollution ForbiddenDeath Of A Family MemberGrandmothers

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on whom the holy oil was put, who were marked out as priests.

Verse ConceptsOrdinationPriests, Institution In Ot TimesConsecrationAnointing Priests

And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father.

Verse ConceptsDeath As PunishmentBurning SacrificesDying In The Desert

The horns are to be sounded by the sons of Aaron, the priests; this is to be a law for you for ever, from generation to generation.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesPriests, Function In Ot TimesInstrumentalists

Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests?

Verse ConceptsPriesthood, In OtSeeking For Abstract Things

And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's family are to be responsible for all wrongdoing in relation to the holy place: and you and your sons are to be responsible for the errors which come about in your work as priests.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Priestly ResponsibilitiesOffencePriesthood, In OtFathers Responsibilitiesconnection

And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as priests for the altar and everything on it, and everything inside the veil; you are to do the work of priests; I have given you your position as priests; and any other man who comes near will be put to death.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Priestly ResponsibilitiesAccess To God, In Old TestamentMediatorPriesthood, In OtServanthood, And Worship Of GodExclusionDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is Near

And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have the right to be priests for ever; because, by his care for the honour of his God, he took away the sin of the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsPriesthood, In OtSin, God's Remedy For

And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:

Verse ConceptsCourtsPriesthood, In OtPriests, Function In Ot Timespriests

And when he has taken his place on the seat of his kingdom, he is to make in a book a copy of this law, from that which the priests, the Levites, have in their care:

Verse ConceptsScrollsThroneWritingCopies Of Documentslawroyalty

The priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of Levi, will have no part or heritage with Israel: their food and their heritage will be the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPriests, Institution In Ot TimesNo Earthly InheritancePriestly InheritancePermitted To Eat Offeringspriests

And this is to be the priests' right: those who make an offering of a sheep or an ox are to give to the priest the top part of the leg and the two sides of the head and the stomach.

Verse ConceptsSheepCheeksFood For Priests Defined

For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsLeaders, Spiritual

Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power;

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesStanding

Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged:

Verse Conceptselection, responsibilities ofBenedictionsPriests, Function In Ot TimesPeople Involved In JudgementPeople Blessing

In connection with the leper's disease, take care to keep and do every detail of the teaching of the priests, the Levites: as I gave them orders, so you are to do.

Verse ConceptsInstructionHygieneKeeping Man's Word

Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, said to all Israel, Be quiet and give ear, O Israel; today you have become the people of the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual AdoptionCurbing Speech

Then Moses put all this law in writing, and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, and to all the responsible men of Israel.

Verse ConceptsBooksMoses, Significance OfPriests, Function In Ot TimesThe Ark Moved AroundCarrying Holy ThingsThe Law Given Through Mosesthe Law of moses

Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and go after it;

Verse ConceptsThe Ark Moved AroundPriests In Action

Then Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the agreement and go over in front of the people. So they took up the ark of the agreement and went in front of the people.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, DescriptionThe Ark Moved AroundCrossing Into The Promised LandRiver CrossingsThings Going BeforePriests In ActionArk Of The Covenant

And you are to give orders to the priests who take up the ark of the agreement, and say, When you come to the edge of the waters of Jordan, go no further.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesStandingMotionlessnessComing To RestWalking Through WaterIn The JordanPriests In Actionpriests

And when the feet of the priests who take up the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of Jordan, the waters of Jordan will be cut off, all the waters flowing down from higher up, and will come together in a mass.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Belonging To GodBearingCessationDry LandFeet In ActionIn The JordanNature Of GodThings Stopping

So when the people went out from their tents to go over Jordan, the priests who took up the ark of the agreement were in front of the people;

Verse ConceptsThings Going BeforePriests In Action

And when those who took up the ark came to Jordan, and the feet of the priests who took up the ark were touching the edge of the water (for the waters of Jordan are overflowing all through the time of the grain-cutting),

Verse ConceptsHarvestWalking Through WaterSwellingFeet In Action

And the priests who took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord kept their places, with their feet on dry land in the middle of Jordan, while all Israel went over on dry land, till all the nation had gone over Jordan.

Verse ConceptsDry LandIn The JordanPriests In Action

And say to them, Take up from the middle of Jordan, from the place where the feet of the priests were resting, twelve stones, and take them over with you and put them down in the place where you take your rest tonight.

Verse ConceptsStones As MonumentsTwelve ThingsIn The Jordan

And Joshua put up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan, where the feet of the priests who took up the ark of the agreement had been placed: and there they are to this day.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesThe MiddleStones As MonumentsTwelve ThingsIn The JordanPlaces To This Day

For the priests who took up the ark kept there in the middle of Jordan till all the orders given to Joshua by Moses from the Lord had been done: then the people went over quickly.

Verse ConceptsThe MiddleHasty ActionPriests In Action

And when all the people had come to the other side, the ark of the Lord went over, and the priests, before the eyes of the people.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, Names ForThe Ark Moved Around

Give orders to the priests who take up the ark of witness, to come up out of Jordan.

Verse ConceptsPriests In Action

So Joshua gave orders to the priests, saying, Come up now out of Jordan.

And when the priests who took up the ark of the Lord's agreement came up out of Jordan and their feet came out on to dry land, the waters of Jordan went back to their place, overflowing its edges as before.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of JoshuaPriests In Action

And let seven priests go before the ark with seven loud-sounding horns in their hands: on the seventh day you are to go round the town seven times, the priests blowing their horns.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalHornsPriests, Function In Ot TimesRamsSevenSeven PeopleSeven ThingsSeven TimesThe Ark Moved AroundTrumpets For BattleSeven TrumpetsFalling

Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent for the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the agreement, and let seven priests take seven horns in their hands and go before the ark of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSeven PeopleSeven ThingsThe Ark Moved AroundSeven Trumpets

So after Joshua had said this to the people, the seven priests with their seven horns went forward before the Lord, blowing on their horns: and the ark of the Lord's agreement went after them.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalMusical Instruments, Made OfSeven PeopleSeven ThingsThe Ark Moved AroundSeven Trumpets

And the armed men went before the priests who were blowing the horns, and the mass of the people went after the ark, blowing their horns.

And early in the morning Joshua got up, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesThose Who Rose Early

And the seven priests with their seven horns went on before the ark of the Lord, blowing their horns: the armed men went before them, and the mass of the people went after the ark of the Lord, blowing their horns.

Verse ConceptsSeven PeopleSeven ThingsTrumpets For BattleSeven Trumpets

And the seventh time, at the sound of the priests' horns, Joshua said to the people, Now give a loud cry; for the Lord has given you the town.

Verse ConceptsBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement; half of them were stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the blessing of the children of Israel which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had given.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, EventsJudgesFractions, One HalfHalf Of GroupsPriests In Action

For the Levites have no part among you; to be the Lord's priests is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have had their heritage on the east side of Jordan, given to them by Moses, the servant of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsHeirsPriesthood, In OtBeyond JordanNo Earthly InheritancePriestly InheritanceReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.

Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestThirteen

(And the children of Dan put up the pictured image for themselves; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of the Danites till the day when the ark was taken prisoner.)

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesExile In Prospect

Now this man went up from his town every year to give worship and to make offerings to the Lord of armies in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.

Verse ConceptsPilgrimageSacrifice, In OtWorship, Places OfNames Of GodArk Of The Covenant, EventsEvery YearGod As A Warrior

And the priests' way with the people was this: when any man made an offering, the priest's servant came while the flesh was being cooked, having in his hand a meat-hook with three teeth;

Verse ConceptsCustomCooking, MethodsSharp ToolsThreefold

And the Philistines sent for the priests and those who were wise in secret arts, and said to them, What are we to do with the ark of the Lord? How are we to send it away to its place?

Then the king sent for Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and for all the men of his father's family who were priests in Nob: and they all came to the king.

Verse ConceptsKings Summoning

Then the king said to the runners who were waiting near him, Put the priests of the Lord to death; because they are on David's side, and having knowledge of his flight, did not give me word of it. But the king's servants would not put out their hands to make an attack on the Lord's priests.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesKilling PriestsOthers Who FledPeople UnwillingThose Who Did Not Tell

Then the king said to Doeg, You are to put the priests to death. And Doeg the Edomite, turning on the priests and attacking them, put to death that day eighty-five men who took up the ephod.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsephodsLinenThe Number EightyEighties

And Nob, the town of the priests, he put to the sword, all the men and women, children and babies at the breast, and oxen and asses and sheep.

Verse ConceptsBoth Men And Animals Killed

And Zadok and Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, were priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesSecretary

And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were priests.

And have you not there Zadok and Abiathar the priests? so whatever comes to your ears from the king's house, give word of it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

Verse ConceptsGiving Information

Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, This is the suggestion made by Ahithophel to Absalom and the responsible men of Israel, and this is what I said to them.

And King David sent word to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, Say to the responsible men of Judah, Why are you the last to take steps to get the king back to his house?

Verse ConceptsPeople Who DelayedPeople Of Judah

And Sheva was the scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

Verse ConceptsSecretary

Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was head of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

And all the responsible men of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

Verse ConceptsThe Ark In The TemplePriests In ActionThe Elders Gathered

They took up the ark of the Lord, and the Tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests and the Levites took up.

Verse ConceptsTent Of MeetingHoly VesselsSacred VesselsPriests In ActionThe Tabernaclereuniting

And the priests took the ark of the agreement of the Lord and put it in its place in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones.

Verse ConceptsSanctuaryThe Ark In The Temple

Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, the house of the Lord was full of the cloud,

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsFilling The Sanctuary

So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud, for the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsecstasyTheophanyPeople's Inability To Serve GodCloud of glory

And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesPriests, Institution In Ot Times

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Root Form
Definition
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כּהן 
Kahan 
Usage: 23

ἀρχιερεύς 
Archiereus 
Usage: 118

ἱερεύς 
Hiereus 
Usage: 22

כּהן 
Kohen 
Usage: 750

כּהן 
Kahen (Aramaic) 
Usage: 8

כּהנּה 
K@hunnah 
Usage: 14

כּמר 
Kamar 
Usage: 3

ἀρχιερατικός 
Archieratikos 
of the high priest
Usage: 1

ἱερατεία 
Hierateia 
Usage: 2

ἱεράτευμα 
Hierateuma 
Usage: 2

ἱερατεύω 
Hierateuo 
Usage: 1

ἱερωσύνη 
Hierosune 
Usage: 4

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