Exodus 6:25
And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.
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John 1:19
And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
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62 occurrences in 56 verses.
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Exodus
22 verses
Leviticus
42 verses
Numbers
6048 verses
Deuteronomy
88 verses
Joshua
1414 verses
1 Samuel
11 verses
2 Samuel
11 verses
1 Kings
11 verses
1 Chronicles
3534 verses
2 Chronicles
6256 verses
Ezra
2120 verses
Nehemiah
4337 verses
Isaiah
11 verses
Jeremiah
33 verses
Ezekiel
88 verses
John
11 verses
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לֵוִיִּי
Lêvîyîy · lay-vee-ee'
260 times translated as this KJV form286 total Strong's occurrences
a Levite or descendant of Levi
Strong's KJV usage: Leviite.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 6:25Strong's last: Ezekiel 48:22
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Lêvîy · lay-vee'
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: Levite.
Strong's first: Ezra 6:16Strong's last: Ezra 7:24
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Leuḯtēs · lyoo-ee'-tace
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a Levite, i.e. descendant of Levi
Strong's KJV usage: :--Levite.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 1:19Strong's last: John 1:19
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H3881
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 there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
H3881
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, 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.
H3881
And said unto the Levites 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,
H3881
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
And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: 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.
H3881
Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
H3881
Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
H3881
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
H3881
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
H3881
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 prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
H3881
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 prepared for them.
H3881
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, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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levite
LE'VITE, noun [from Levi, one the sons of Jacob.]
One of the tribe or family of Levi; a descendant of Levi; more particularly, an officer in the Jewish church, who was employed in manual service, as in bringing wood and other necessaries for the sacrifices. The Levites also sung and played on instruments of music. They were subordinate to the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who was also of the family of Levi.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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