H3550Noun, feminine14 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
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- Exodus 29:9כְּהֻנָּה
Wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons and tie headbands on them. The priesthood shall be theirs by a permanent statute. In this way you are to ordain Aaron and his sons.
- Numbers 3:10כְּהֻנָּתָם
So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any outsider who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death.”
- Joshua 18:7כְהֻנַּת
The Levites, however, have no portion among you, because their inheritance is the priesthood of the LORD. And Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have already received the inheritance that Moses the servant of the LORD gave them beyond the Jordan to the east.”
- 1 Samuel 2:36הַכְּהֻנּוֹת
And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
- Ezra 2:62הַכְּהֻנָּה
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
- Nehemiah 7:64הַכְּהֻנָּה
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
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Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.