Strong H3550כְּהֻנָּה

priesthood

Transliteration
kehûnnâh
Pronunciation
keh-hoon-naw'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From H3547; priesthood: - {priesthood} priest´ s office.

Detailed definition

priesthood

In the Bible

Strong H3550 appears in 12 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • priesthood6
  • office4
  • put2

First verses

  1. Exodus 29:9
    And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
  2. Exodus 40:15
    And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.
  3. Numbers 3:10
    And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest’s office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
  4. Numbers 16:10
    And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
  5. Numbers 18:1
    And the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
  6. Numbers 18:7
    Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
  7. Numbers 25:13
    And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
  8. Joshua 18:7
    But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.
  9. 1 Samuel 2:36
    And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
  10. Ezra 2:62
    These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
  11. Nehemiah 7:64
    These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
  12. Nehemiah 13:29
    Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
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