לֵוִי leviyyi

Hebrew word for “Levi” · Strong’s H3881 · used 291 times in 263 verses

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Meaning

Someone from the tribe of Levi living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.29.34;

How it is translated

Glosses given for leviyyi in context, with how often each is used:

• levites 255
• levite 25
• levi 8
• will belong to the levites 1
• among the levites 1
• some of the levites 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 8 (15), 1 Chronicles 15 (11), Numbers 3 (10), Joshua 21 (9), 2 Chronicles 35 (9), 2 Chronicles 29 (8), Nehemiah 12 (8), 2 Chronicles 30 (7), 2 Chronicles 31 (7), Nehemiah 11 (7)

Forms

• הלוים 147
• והלוים 58
• ללוים 34
• הלוי 21
• לוי 10
• וללוים 9
• והלוי 6
• ללוי 3
• בלוים 1
• ומהלוים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with leviyyi more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 101
• עֲבֹדָה avodah “service” 20
• עִיר ir “city” 31
• אַהֲרֹן aharon “Aaron” 23
• עָמַד amad “to stand” 24
• מִן־ min “from” 29
• אָח ach “brother” 24
• אֲרוֹן aron “ark” 18
• שֹׁעֵר shoer “gatekeeper” 13
• שָׁרַת sharat “to minister” 15
• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 24
• יֵשׁוּעַ yeshua “Jeshua” 12

Key verses

The verses using leviyyi that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 12:12 — And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is…
• Deuteronomy 16:11 — And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy…
• Deuteronomy 31:9 — And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.
• 1 Chronicles 15:16 — And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding,…
• 2 Chronicles 29:25 — And he set the Levites 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…
• Ezra 9:1 — Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the…
• Nehemiah 8:7 — Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people…
• Nehemiah 8:9 — And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto…
• Nehemiah 9:5 — Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and…
• Nehemiah 12:27 — And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with…
• Nehemiah 13:22 — And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my…
• Ezekiel 44:15 — But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to…

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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.