כְּהֻנָּה kehunnah
Hebrew word for “priesthood” · Strong’s H3550 · used 14 times in 12 verses
Meaning
priesthood
How it is translated
Glosses given for kehunnah in context, with how often each is used:
- priesthood 13
- priesthoods 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Numbers 18 (2), Exodus 29 (1), Exodus 40 (1), Numbers 3 (1), Numbers 16 (1), Numbers 25 (1), Joshua 18 (1), 1 Samuel 2 (1), Ezra 2 (1), Nehemiah 7 (1)
Forms
- הכהנה 4
- כהנתכם 3
- כהנה 2
- כהנת 2
- לכהנת 1
- כהנתם 1
- הכהנות 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with kehunnah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- גָּאַל gaal “to defile” 2
- קָרֵב qarev “approaching” 2
- כְּתָב katav “writing” 2
- יָחַשׂ yachas “to enroll” 2
- בָּקַשׁ baqash “to seek” 3
- אַהֲרֹן aharon “Aaron” 3
- הֶם hem “them” 4
- עוֹלָם olam “forever” 3
- זוּר zur “be a stranger” 2
- אֵת et “with” 3
- לֵוִי leviyyi “Levi” 2
- בְּרִית berit “covenant” 2
Key verses
The verses using kehunnah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Exodus 29:9 — And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and…
- Exodus 40:15 — And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing shall surely be an…
- Numbers 3:10 — And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest’s office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
- Numbers 16:10 — And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
- Numbers 18:1 — And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee…
- Numbers 18:7 — Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your…
- Numbers 25:13 — And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the…
- Joshua 18:7 — But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received…
- 1 Samuel 2:36 — And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say,…
- Ezra 2:62 — These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
- Nehemiah 7:64 — These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
- Nehemiah 13:29 — Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
See all 12 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.