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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Priest

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

497exact KJV occurrences 427Old Testament 70New Testament 30books containing the word 6mapped Strong's IDs 494occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 14:18

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Hebrews 13:11

For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where priest appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 44 verses Exodus 88 verses Leviticus 174139 verses Numbers 6761 verses Deuteronomy 55 verses Joshua 1111 verses Judges 1311 verses 1 Samuel 1918 verses 2 Samuel 11 verses 1 Kings 1717 verses 2 Kings 2520 verses 1 Chronicles 44 verses 2 Chronicles 1917 verses Ezra 88 verses Nehemiah 1010 verses Psalms 11 verses Isaiah 33 verses Jeremiah 1614 verses Lamentations 22 verses Ezekiel 77 verses Hosea 33 verses Amos 11 verses Haggai 55 verses Zechariah 44 verses Matthew 66 verses Mark 99 verses Luke 44 verses John 109 verses Acts 1514 verses Hebrews 2626 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH3547
כָּהַן

kâhan · kaw-han'

2 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences

v

to officiate as a priest; figuratively, to put on regalia

Strong's KJV usage: deck, be (do the office of a, execute the, minister in the) priest('s office).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Ezekiel 44:13Strong's last: Hosea 4:6

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GreekG748
ἀρχιερατικός

archieratikós · ar-khee-er-at-ee-kos'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

high-priestly

Strong's KJV usage: :--of the high-priest.

Strong's first: Acts 4:6Strong's last: Acts 4:6

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Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.

EVERY OCCURRENCE

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13 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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Judges 17:5
H3548

And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

Judges 17:10
H3548

And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

Judges 17:12
H3548

And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

Judges 17:13
H3548

Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

Judges 18:4
H3548

And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.

Judges 18:6
H3548

And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go.

Judges 18:17
H3548

And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.

Judges 18:18
H3548

And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?

Judges 18:19
H3548

And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

Judges 18:19
H3548

And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

Judges 18:19
H3548

And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

Judges 18:24
H3548

And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?

Judges 18:27
H3548

And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

priest

PRIEST, noun [Latin proestes, a chief, one that presides; proe, before, and sto, to stand, or sisto.]

1. A man who officiates in sacred offices. Among pagans, priests were persons whose appropriate business was to offer sacrifices and perform other sacred rites of religion. In primitive ages, the fathers of families, princes and kings were priests. Thus Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Melchizedek, Job, Isaac and Jacob offered their own sacrifices. In the days of Moses, the office of priest was restricted to the tribe of Levi, and the priesthood consisted of three orders, the high priest the priests, and the Levites, and the office was made hereditary in the family of Aaron.

Every priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. Hebrews 5:1.

2. In the modern church, a person who is set apart or consecrated to the ministry of the gospel; a man in orders or licensed to preach the gospel; a presbyter. In its most general sense, the word includes archbishops, bishops, patriarchs, and all subordinate orders of the clergy, duly approved and licensed according to the forms and rules of each respective denomination of christians; as all these orders 'are ordained for men in things pertaining to God.' But in Great Britain, the word is understood to denote the subordinate orders of the clergy, above a deacon and below a bishop. In the United States, the word denotes any licensed minister of the gospel.

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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