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# קְהָת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6955

**Kohath** — used 32 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

Kohath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6955/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קְהָת: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6955/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Κααθ: son of Levi Gn 46:11; Ex 6:16; Nu 3:17; 1 Ch 5:27; 6:1; 23:6, cf. Ex 6:18; Nu 26:58 and בֶּן־ק׳ Nu 16:1; 1 Ch 6:23; בְּנֵי ק׳ Ex 6:18 + 4 times Ch; as a division of Levites Nu 3:19, 29 + 9 times; מִשְׁפְּחוֹת ב׳ ק׳ Jos 21:20, 26; 1 Ch 6:51, מִשְׁפַּחַת לִב׳ ק׳ v 55.—Van d. H. has קֳהָת Nu 3:19 + 7 times

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 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: of Kohath (23); Kohath (9).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 5:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.27/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י לֵוִ֑י גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹן קְהָ֖ת וּמְרָרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Levi \[were\].Gershon Kohath and Merari

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

[1 Chronicles 6:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.1/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י לֵוִ֑י גֵּרְשֹׁ֕ם קְהָ֖ת וּמְרָרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Levi \[were\].Gershom Kohath and Merari

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath and Merari.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6955.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6955/): 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).