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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.

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ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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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

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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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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

Zechariah 6:11
H3548

Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;

Zechariah 6:13
H3548

Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

Matthew 8:4
G2409

And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

Matthew 26:3
G749

Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

Matthew 26:57
G749

And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.

Matthew 26:62
G749

And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?

Matthew 26:63
G749

But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.

Matthew 26:65
G749

Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

Mark 1:44
G2409

And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

Mark 2:26
G749

How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?

Mark 14:47
G749

And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

Mark 14:53
G749

And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.

Mark 14:54
G749

And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.

Mark 14:60
G749

And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?

Mark 14:61
G749

But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

Mark 14:63
G749

Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?

Mark 14:66
G749

And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest:

Luke 1:5
G2409

There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

Luke 5:14
G2409

And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

Luke 10:31
G2409

And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

Luke 22:50
G749

And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.

John 11:49
G749

And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,

John 11:51
G749

And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;

John 18:13
G749

And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.

John 18:15
G749

And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest.

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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