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
And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;
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And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
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Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
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All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
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Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.
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And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.
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Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
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And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:
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And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:
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And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:
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And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.
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And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.
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And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.
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And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.
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Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
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Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
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And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.
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And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
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And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
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And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
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And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
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And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
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And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
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And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
H3881
This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
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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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