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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Priest
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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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174 occurrences in 139 verses.
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Genesis
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88 verses
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55 verses
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1111 verses
Judges
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88 verses
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11 verses
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33 verses
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22 verses
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77 verses
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33 verses
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11 verses
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44 verses
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66 verses
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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כֹּהֵן
kôhên · ko-hane'
422 times translated as this KJV form750 total Strong's occurrences
literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
Strong's KJV usage: chief ruler, × own, priest, prince, principal officer.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 14:18Strong's last: Zechariah 6:13
Open full H3548 profile →ἀρχιερεύς
archiereús · ar-khee-er-yuce'
50 times translated as this KJV form125 total Strong's occurrences
the high-priest (literally, of the Jews, typically, Christ); by extension a chief priest
Strong's KJV usage: :--chief (high) priest, chief of the priests.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 26:3Strong's last: Hebrews 13:11
Open full G749 profile →ἱερεύς
hiereús · hee-er-yooce'
17 times translated as this KJV form33 total Strong's occurrences
a priest (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(high) priest.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 8:4Strong's last: Hebrews 10:21
Open full G2409 profile →כָּהַן
kâhan · kaw-han'
2 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
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
Open full H3547 profile →כָּהֵן
kâhên · kaw-hane'
2 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: priest.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezra 7:12Strong's last: Ezra 7:21
Open full H3549 profile →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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H3548
Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
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Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
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He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
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And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:
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And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven days:
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And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;
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Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
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And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.
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And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
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This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
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And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
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And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
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Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
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And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
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And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
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And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:
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And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
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And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
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And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:
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And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD:
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And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
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And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.
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And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
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And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
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And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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