Priest Word Study | True Words Baptist Church

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

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HebrewH3548

כֹּהֵן

kôhên · ko-hane'

422 times translated as this KJV form750 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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

priests 305 priest's 16 own 2 rulers 1 ruler 1 officer 1 princes 1 Priests 1

Strong's first: Genesis 14:18Strong's last: Zechariah 6:13

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GreekG749

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

priests 65 priest's 4 unto the chief priests 2 a 2 the high priest 1 chief priests 1 which 1

Strong's first: Matthew 26:3Strong's last: Hebrews 13:11

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GreekG2409

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

priests 10 to the priest 3 for the priests 3 the priests 1 unto the priests 1 an 1

Strong's first: Matthew 8:4Strong's last: Hebrews 10:21

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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

priest's office 20 decketh 1

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

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AramaicH3549

כָּהֵן

kâhên · kaw-hane'

2 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

Strong's KJV usage: priest.

Other KJV renderings

priests 6

Strong's first: Ezra 7:12Strong's last: Ezra 7:21

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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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Numbers 3:6

H3548

Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.

Numbers 3:32

H3548

And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.

Numbers 4:16

H3548

And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.

Numbers 4:28

H3548

This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Numbers 4:33

H3548

This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Numbers 5:8

H3548

But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.

Numbers 5:9

H3548

And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.

Numbers 5:10

H3548

And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.

Numbers 5:15

H3548

Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

Numbers 5:16

H3548

And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:

Numbers 5:17

H3548

And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:

Numbers 5:17

H3548

And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:

Numbers 5:18

H3548

And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:

Numbers 5:18

H3548

And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:

Numbers 5:19

H3548

And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:

Numbers 5:21

H3548

Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

Numbers 5:21

H3548

Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

Numbers 5:23

H3548

And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:

Numbers 5:25

H3548

Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:

Numbers 5:26

H3548

And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.

Numbers 5:30

H3548

Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

Numbers 6:10

H3548

And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:

Numbers 6:11

H3548

And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.

Numbers 6:16

H3548

And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

Numbers 6:17

H3548

And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.

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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