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# קְהָתִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6956

**Kohathite** — used 15 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

Kohathite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6956/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קְהָתִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6956/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of foreg., c. art. הַקּ׳ as subst. coll.: הַקּ׳ (-וֹת) מִשְׁפַּחַת Nu 26:57 + 8 times; בְּנֵי הַקּ׳ Nu 4:34; 1 Ch 6:18; 2 Ch 29:12; pl. הַקְּהָתִים Nu 10:21 and בְּנֵי הַקּ׳ 2 Ch 20:19; 34:12.—Van d. H. has הַקֳּהָתִי(ם) Nu 3:27; 10:21 + 6 times

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the Kohathite\[s\] (12); the Kohathites (2); Kohathites (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 3:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.30/#tree)

וּנְשִׂ֥יא בֵֽית־אָ֖ב לְמִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת הַקְּהָתִ֑י אֶלִיצָפָ֖ןבֶּן־עֻזִּיאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] leader of.\[the\].house of.a.father of the.clans of the.Kohathite\[s\] \[was\].Elizaphan the.son of.Uzziel

*JPS 1917:* the prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kohathites being Elizaphan the son of Uzziel,

[Numbers 4:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.18/#tree)

אַל־תַּכְרִ֕יתוּ אֶת־שֵׁ֖בֶט מִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת הַקְּהָתִ֑י מִתּ֖וֹךְ הַלְוִיִּֽם׃

*Word for word:* do.not cut.off (et) the.tribe of.the.clans of the.Kohathite\[s\] from among the Levites

*JPS 1917:* 'Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6956.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6956/): 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).