Strong H6955קְהָת
Kohath
- Transliteration
- qehâth
- Pronunciation
- keh-hawth'
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
From an unused root meaning to ally oneself;
allied;
{Kehath} an Israelite: - Kohath.
allied;
{Kehath} an Israelite: - Kohath.
Meaning of the name
Kohath = "assembly"
Detailed definition
A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.46.11;
son of: Levi (H3878);
brother of: Gershon (H1648), Merari (H4847) and Jochebed (H3115);
father of: Amram (H6019), Izhar (H3324), Hebron (H2275B) and Uzziel (H5816)
Also named: qo.ha.ti (קְהָתִי "Kohathite" H6956)
son of: Levi (H3878);
brother of: Gershon (H1648), Merari (H4847) and Jochebed (H3115);
father of: Amram (H6019), Izhar (H3324), Hebron (H2275B) and Uzziel (H5816)
Also named: qo.ha.ti (קְהָתִי "Kohathite" H6956)
In the biblical story
Kohath
Son of Levi; Levite clan ancestor
Kohath, son of Levi, was the ancestor of Moses and Aaron (Gen.46.11; Exo.6.16,18).
In the Bible
Strong H6955 appears in 29 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- kohath29
First verses
- Genesis 46:11And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- Exodus 6:16And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
- Exodus 6:18And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.
- Numbers 3:17And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
- Numbers 3:19And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
- Numbers 3:27And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.
- Numbers 3:29The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.
- Numbers 4:2Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
- Numbers 4:4This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
- Numbers 4:15And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.
- Numbers 7:9But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.
- Numbers 16:1Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
- Numbers 26:57And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
- Numbers 26:58These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
- Joshua 21:5And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
- Joshua 21:20And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
- Joshua 21:26All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.
- 1 Chronicles 6:1The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- 1 Chronicles 6:2And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
- 1 Chronicles 6:16The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.