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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Priests

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.

401exact KJV occurrences 318Old Testament 83New Testament 34books containing the word 6mapped Strong's IDs 398occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 47:22

Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where priests appears.

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

Genesis 32 verses Exodus 33 verses Leviticus 1010 verses Numbers 22 verses Deuteronomy 88 verses Joshua 2924 verses Judges 11 verses 1 Samuel 1210 verses 2 Samuel 65 verses 1 Kings 1110 verses 2 Kings 2019 verses 1 Chronicles 1515 verses 2 Chronicles 6957 verses Ezra 2625 verses Nehemiah 3433 verses Psalms 44 verses Isaiah 33 verses Jeremiah 2525 verses Lamentations 44 verses Ezekiel 1717 verses Hosea 33 verses Joel 33 verses Micah 11 verses Zephaniah 22 verses Haggai 33 verses Zechariah 22 verses Malachi 22 verses Matthew 2020 verses Mark 1515 verses Luke 1616 verses John 1111 verses Acts 1212 verses Hebrews 66 verses Revelation 33 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.

HebrewH3649
כָּמָר

kâmâr · kaw-mawr'

2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

properly, an ascetic (as if shrunk with self-maceration), i.e. an idolatrous priest (only in plural)

Strong's KJV usage: Chemarims (idolatrous) priests.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Kings 23:5Strong's last: Hosea 10:5

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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11 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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1 Kings 4:4
H3548

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:

1 Kings 8:3
H3548

And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

1 Kings 8:4
H3548

And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.

1 Kings 8:6
H3548

And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.

1 Kings 8:10
H3548

And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,

1 Kings 8:11
H3548

So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.

1 Kings 12:31
H3548

And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

1 Kings 12:32
H3548

And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

1 Kings 13:2
H3548

And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.

1 Kings 13:33
H3548

After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

1 Kings 13:33
H3548

After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

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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