Priesthood
כְּהֻנָּהStrong’s H3550kehunnah (ke-hun-nah)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kehunnah is the Hebrew word usually translated “priesthood”, “priesthood your” and “priesthood of”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Priesthood
How it's translated
- the priesthood 4
- priesthood your 3
- priesthood 2
- priesthood of 2
- a priesthood of 1
- priesthood their 1
- the priesthoods 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 5
- Exodus 2
- Nehemiah 2
- Joshua 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Ezra 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 40:15And 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.
- Numbers 3:10And 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.
- Numbers 16:10And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
- Numbers 18:1And 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.
- Numbers 18:7Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for everything 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.
- Numbers 25:13And 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.
Hebrew dictionary
כְּהֻנָּה kehunnah · priesthood
priesthood
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “priesthood” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRIE'STHOOD, noun
The office or character of a priest.
- The order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order composed of priests.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.