Levi
לֵוִיStrong’s H3878levi (le-vi)
Appears in 57 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Levi is the Hebrew word usually translated “levi”, “levite” and “levites”. It appears in 57 verses of the Old Testament.
“The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;”
Meaning
- A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.29.34
How it's translated
- levi 43
- the levite 6
- and levi 5
- the levites 2
- to levi 1
- and of levi 1
- for levi 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 15
- Numbers 13
- Genesis 6
- Exodus 6
- Deuteronomy 5
- Joshua 3
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 29:34And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
- Genesis 34:25And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
- Genesis 34:30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
- Genesis 35:23The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
- Genesis 46:11And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
All 57 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
לֵוִי levi · Levi
A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.29.34; son of: Israel (H3478) and Leah (H3812); brother of: Reuben (H7205), Simeon (H8095), Judah (H3063), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074) and Dinah (H1783); half-brother of: Dan (H1835H), Naphtali (H5321), Gad (H1410), Asher (H0836), Joseph (H3130) and Benjamin (H1144); father of: Gershon (H1648), Kohath (H6955), Merari (H4847) and Jochebed (H3115) § Levi = "joined to" the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah and progenitor of tribe of Levites
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “levite” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LE'VITE, noun
[from Levi, one the sons of Jacob.]
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.