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# כְּהֻנָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3550

**priesthood** — used 14 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

priesthood [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3550/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּהֻנָּה: n.f. priesthood [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3550/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. priesthood;—abs. כ׳ Ex 29:9 + 5 times; cstr. כְּהֻנַּת Nu 25:13 + 2 times; sf. כְּהֻנַּתְכֶם Nu 18:1, 7(×2); כְּהֻנָּתָם Nu 3:10; pl. כְּהֻנּוֹת 1 S 2:36.—כהנת יהוה priesthood of י׳, the portion of the Levites Jos 18:7 (D); pl. priest’s offices 1 S 2:36; elsewhere Ex 29:9; 40:15 Nu 3:10; 16:10; 18:1, 7(×2); 25:13 (all P), Ezr 2:62 = Ne 7:64, Ne 13:29(×2).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: priesthood (8); the priesthood (2); \[is\] the priesthood (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:62](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.62/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.62/#tree)

אֵ֗לֶּה בִּקְשׁ֧וּ כְתָבָ֛ם הַמִּתְיַחְשִׂ֖ים וְלֹ֣א נִמְצָ֑אוּ וַֽיְגֹאֲל֖וּ מִן־הַכְּהֻנָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* these they.sought document their \[those who.had\].had.themselves.enrolled and not they.were.found and they.were.defiled from the priesthood

*JPS 1917:* These sought their register, that is, the genealogy, but it was not found; therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

[Nehemiah 7:64](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.64/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.64/#tree)

אֵ֗לֶּה בִּקְשׁ֧וּ כְתָבָ֛ם הַמִּתְיַחְשִׂ֖ים וְלֹ֣א נִמְצָ֑א וַיְגֹֽאֲל֖וּ מִן־הַכְּהֻנָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* these they.sought document their \[those who.had\].had.themselves.enrolled and not it.was.found and they.were.defiled from the priesthood

*JPS 1917:* These sought their register, that is, the genealogy, but it was not found; therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3550.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3550/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).