לֵוִי
Levite
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 250 times (87%)
- Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 32 times (11%)
- Noun, Proper 3 times (1%)
- Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 286 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
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Exodus 3 verses
- Exodus 4:14 הַ/לֵּוִ֔י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
- Exodus 6:25 הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Eleazar Aaron's son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families.
- Exodus 38:21 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp This is the amount of material used for the tent, even the Tent of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
Leviticus 2 verses
- Leviticus 25:32 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם לַ/לְוִיִּֽם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp prep det + n Gentilic mp "'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
- Leviticus 25:33 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
Numbers 48 verses
- Numbers 1:47 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
- Numbers 1:50 הַ/לְוִיִּם֩ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.
- Numbers 1:51 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
- Numbers 1:53 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֞ם הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony."
- Numbers 2:17 הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp "Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.
- Numbers 2:33 וְ/הַ֨/לְוִיִּ֔ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 3:9 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 3:12 הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם הַ/לְוִיִּֽם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp "Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:
- Numbers 3:20 הַ/לֵּוִ֖י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
- Numbers 3:32 הַ/לֵּוִ֔י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the charge of the sanctuary.
- Numbers 3:39 הַ/לְוִיִּ֜ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
- Numbers 3:41 הַ/לְוִיִּ֥ם הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp You shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the children of Israel."
- Numbers 3:45 הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.
- Numbers 3:46 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,
- Numbers 3:49 הַ/לְוִיִּֽם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;
- Numbers 4:18 הַ/לְוִיִּֽם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp "Don't cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;
- Numbers 4:46 הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers' houses,
- Numbers 7:5 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp "Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service."
- Numbers 7:6 הַ/לְוִיִּֽם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.
- Numbers 8:6 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp "Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
- Numbers 8:9 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 8:10 הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם הַ/לְוִיִּֽם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,
- Numbers 8:11 הַ/לְוִיִּ֤ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.
- Numbers 8:12 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּם֙ הַ/לְוִיִּֽם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.
- Numbers 8:13 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp You shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.
- Numbers 8:14 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם הַ/לְוִיִּֽם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
- Numbers 8:15 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp "After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.
- Numbers 8:18 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
- Numbers 8:19 הַ/לְוִיִּ֜ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary."
- Numbers 8:20 לַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם לַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם prep det + n Gentilic mp prep det + n Gentilic mp Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.
- Numbers 8:21 הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before Yahweh; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.
- Numbers 8:22 הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
- Numbers 8:24 לַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם prep det + n Gentilic mp "This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;
- Numbers 8:26 לַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם prep det + n Gentilic mp but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites concerning their duties."
- Numbers 18:6 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the tent of meeting.
- Numbers 18:23 הַ/לֵּוִ֜י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
- Numbers 18:24 לַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם prep det + n Gentilic mp For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
- Numbers 18:26 הַ/לְוִיִּ֣ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave-offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.
- Numbers 18:30 לַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם prep det + n Gentilic mp Therefore you shall tell them, When you heave the best of it from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine-press.
- Numbers 26:57 הַ/לֵּוִי֮ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms These are those who were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
- Numbers 26:58 לֵוִ֗י n Proper These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.
- Numbers 31:30 לַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם prep det + n Gentilic mp Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, [even] of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites, who keep the charge of the tent of Yahweh.
- Numbers 31:47 לַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם prep det + n Gentilic mp even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tent of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 35:2 לַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם לַ/לְוִיִּֽם prep det + n Gentilic mp prep det + n Gentilic mp Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall you give to the Levites.
- Numbers 35:4 לַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם prep det + n Gentilic mp The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits round about.
- Numbers 35:6 לַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם prep det + n Gentilic mp The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.
- Numbers 35:7 לַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם prep det + n Gentilic mp All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities; them [shall you give] with their suburbs.
- Numbers 35:8 לַ/לְוִיִּֽם prep det + n Gentilic mp Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.
Deuteronomy 19 verses
- Deuteronomy 12:12 וְ/הַ/לֵּוִי֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
- Deuteronomy 12:18 וְ/הַ/לֵּוִ֖י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.
- Deuteronomy 12:19 הַ/לֵּוִ֑י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
- Deuteronomy 14:27 וְ/הַ/לֵּוִ֥י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
- Deuteronomy 14:29 הַ/לֵּוִ֡י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
- Deuteronomy 16:11 וְ/הַ/לֵּוִי֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
- Deuteronomy 16:14 וְ/הַ/לֵּוִ֗י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
- Deuteronomy 17:9 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.
- Deuteronomy 17:18 הַ/לְוִיִּֽם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites:
- Deuteronomy 18:1 הַ/לְוִיִּ֜ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The priests the Levites, [even] all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 18:6 הַ/לֵּוִ֜י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;
- Deuteronomy 18:7 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 24:8 הַ/לְוִיִּ֛ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
- Deuteronomy 26:11 וְ/הַ/לֵּוִ֔י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms and you shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 26:12 לַ/לֵּוִ֗י prep det + n Gentilic ms When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
- Deuteronomy 26:13 לַ/לֵּוִי֙ prep det + n Gentilic ms You shall say before Yahweh your God, I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
- Deuteronomy 27:9 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you are become the people of Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 27:14 הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
- Deuteronomy 31:25 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying,
Joshua 14 verses
- Joshua 3:3 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp and they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall remove from your place, and go after it.
- Joshua 8:33 הַ/לְוִיִּ֜ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, as well the foreigner as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
- Joshua 14:3 וְ/לַ֨/לְוִיִּ֔ם conj + prep det + n Gentilic mp For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan: but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
- Joshua 14:4 לַ/לְוִיִּ֜ם prep det + n Gentilic mp For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for their cattle and for their substance.
- Joshua 18:7 לַ/לְוִיִּם֙ prep det + n Gentilic mp For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.
- Joshua 21:1 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Then came near the heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel;
- Joshua 21:3 לַ/לְוִיִּ֛ם prep det + n Gentilic mp The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their suburbs.
- Joshua 21:4 הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
- Joshua 21:8 לַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם prep det + n Gentilic mp The children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.
- Joshua 21:20 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
- Joshua 21:27 הַ/לְוִיִּם֒ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp To the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh [they gave] Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Be-eshterah with its suburbs; two cities.
- Joshua 21:34 הַ/לְוִיִּ֣ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp To the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, and Kartah with its suburbs,
- Joshua 21:40 הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp All [these were] the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.
- Joshua 21:41 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their suburbs.
Judges 10 verses
- Judges 17:7 לֵוִ֖י n Gentilic ms There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
- Judges 17:9 לֵוִ֣י n Gentilic ms Micah said to him, Whence come you? He said to him, I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place].
- Judges 17:10 הַ/לֵּוִֽי ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten [pieces] of silver by the year, and a suit of clothing, and your food. So the Levite went in.
- Judges 17:11 הַ/לֵּוִ֖י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.
- Judges 17:12 הַ/לֵּוִ֔י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
- Judges 17:13 הַ/לֵּוִ֖י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Then said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
- Judges 18:3 הַ/לֵּוִ֑י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to him, Who brought you here? and what do you in this place? and what have you here?
- Judges 18:15 הַ/לֵּוִ֖י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
- Judges 19:1 לֵוִ֗י n Gentilic ms It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.
- Judges 20:4 הַ/לֵּוִ֗י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
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- 1 Chronicles 6:19 הַ/לֵּוִ֖י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' [houses].
- 1 Chronicles 6:48 הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tent of the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 6:64 לַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם prep det + n Gentilic mp The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.
- 1 Chronicles 9:2 הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
- 1 Chronicles 9:14 הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
- 1 Chronicles 9:26 הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 9:31 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.
- 1 Chronicles 9:33 לַ/לְוִיִּ֛ם prep det + n Gentilic mp These are the singers, heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, [who lived] in the chambers [and were] free [from other service]; for they were employed in their work day and night.
- 1 Chronicles 9:34 לַ/לְוִיִּ֛ם prep det + n Gentilic mp These were heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men: these lived at Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 13:2 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp David said to all the assembly of Israel, If it seem good to you, and if it be of Yahweh our God, let us send abroad everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us;
- 1 Chronicles 15:2 הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them has Yahweh chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister to him forever.
- 1 Chronicles 15:4 הַ/לְוִיִּֽם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp David gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites:
- 1 Chronicles 15:11 וְ/לַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם conj + prep det + n Gentilic mp David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
- 1 Chronicles 15:12 לַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם prep det + n Gentilic mp and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to [the place] that I have prepared for it.
- 1 Chronicles 15:14 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 15:15 הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 15:16 הַ/לְוִיִּם֒ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.
- 1 Chronicles 15:17 הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
- 1 Chronicles 15:22 הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song: he instructed about the song, because he was skillful.
- 1 Chronicles 15:26 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp It happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
- 1 Chronicles 15:27 הַ/לְוִיִּם֙ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song [with] the singers: and David had on him an ephod of linen.
- 1 Chronicles 16:4 הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp He appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of Yahweh, and to celebrate and to thank and praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:
- 1 Chronicles 23:2 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּֽם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
- 1 Chronicles 23:3 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 23:26 לַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם prep det + n Gentilic mp and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tent and all the vessels of it for the service of it.
- 1 Chronicles 23:27 לֵוִ֑י n Proper For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward.
- 1 Chronicles 24:6 הַ/לֵּוִ֗י וְ/לַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms conj + prep det + n Gentilic mp Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers' house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
- 1 Chronicles 24:30 הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers' houses.
- 1 Chronicles 24:31 וְ/לַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם conj + prep det + n Gentilic mp These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers' [houses] of the chief even as those of his younger brother.
- 1 Chronicles 26:17 הַ/לְוִיִּ֣ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the store-house two and two.
- 1 Chronicles 26:20 וְֽ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
- 1 Chronicles 27:17 לְ/לֵוִ֛י prep + n Proper of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of Aaron, Zadok:
- 1 Chronicles 28:13 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, and for all the vessels of service in the house of Yahweh;
- 1 Chronicles 28:21 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with you in all manner of work every willing man who has skill, for any manner of service: also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command.
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- 2 Chronicles 5:4 הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp All the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark;
- 2 Chronicles 5:5 הַ/לְוִיִּֽם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp and they brought up the ark, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did the priests the Levites bring up.
- 2 Chronicles 5:12 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֣ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets;)
- 2 Chronicles 7:6 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֞ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, (for his loving kindness endures for ever), when David praised by their ministry: and the priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
- 2 Chronicles 8:14 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֣ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
- 2 Chronicles 8:15 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֛ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp They didn't depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
- 2 Chronicles 11:13 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.
- 2 Chronicles 11:14 הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest's office to Yahweh;
- 2 Chronicles 13:9 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Haven't you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests after the manner of the peoples of [other] lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of [those who are] no gods.
- 2 Chronicles 13:10 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and [we have] priests ministering to Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work:
- 2 Chronicles 17:8 הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.
- 2 Chronicles 19:8 הַ/לְוִיִּ֣ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 19:11 הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and Yahweh be with the good.
- 2 Chronicles 20:14 הַ/לֵּוִ֖י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Then on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of Yahweh in the midst of the assembly;
- 2 Chronicles 20:19 הַ/לְוִיִּ֛ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice.
- 2 Chronicles 23:2 הַ/לְוִיִּם֙ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp They went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' [houses] of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 23:4 וְ/לַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם conj + prep det + n Gentilic mp This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds;
- 2 Chronicles 23:6 לַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם prep det + n Gentilic mp But let none come into the house of Yahweh, save the priests, and those who minister of the Levites; they shall come in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the charge of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 23:7 הַ/לְוִיִּ֨ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes into the house, let him be slain: and be you with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.
- 2 Chronicles 23:8 הַ/לְוִיִּ֜ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn't dismiss the shift.
- 2 Chronicles 23:18 הַ/לְוִיִּם֮ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Yahweh under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Yahweh, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.
- 2 Chronicles 24:5 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּם֒ הַֽ/לְוִיִּֽם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that you hasten the matter. However the Levites didn't hurry.
- 2 Chronicles 24:6 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why haven't you required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?
- 2 Chronicles 24:11 הַ/לְוִיִּם֒ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp It was so, that whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
- 2 Chronicles 29:4 הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,
- 2 Chronicles 29:5 הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp and said to them, Hear me, you Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
- 2 Chronicles 29:12 הַ֠/לְוִיִּם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Then the Levites arose, Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;
- 2 Chronicles 29:16 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. The Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.
- 2 Chronicles 29:25 הַ/לְוִיִּ֜ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp He set the Levites in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of Yahweh by his prophets.
- 2 Chronicles 29:26 הַ/לְוִיִּם֙ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
- 2 Chronicles 29:30 לַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם prep det + n Gentilic mp Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.
- 2 Chronicles 29:34 הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם הַ/לְוִיִּם֙ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
- 2 Chronicles 30:15 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֤ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 30:16 הַ/לְוִיִּֽם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood [which they received] of the hand of the Levites.
- 2 Chronicles 30:17 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֞ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 30:21 הַ/לְוִיִּ֧ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, [singing] with loud instruments to Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 30:22 הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding [in the service] of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace-offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 30:25 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
- 2 Chronicles 30:27 הַ/לְוִיִּם֙ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
- 2 Chronicles 31:2 וְ֠/הַ/לְוִיִּם וְ/לַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp conj + prep det + n Gentilic mp Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 31:4 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 31:9 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
- 2 Chronicles 31:12 הַ/לֵּוִ֔י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms They brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: and over them Conaniah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second.
- 2 Chronicles 31:14 הַ/לֵּוִי֙ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east [gate], was over the freewill-offerings of God, to distribute the offerings of Yahweh, and the most holy things.
- 2 Chronicles 31:17 וְ/הַ֨/לְוִיִּ֔ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp and those who were reckoned by genealogy of the priests by their fathers' houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their divisions;
- 2 Chronicles 31:19 בַּ/לְוִיִּֽם prep + n Gentilic mp Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all who were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites.
- 2 Chronicles 34:9 הַ/לְוִיִּם֩ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 34:12 הַ/לְוִיִּם֙ וְ/הַ֨/לְוִיִּ֔ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and [others of] the Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music.
- 2 Chronicles 34:13 וּ/מֵֽ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם conj + prep + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all who did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
- 2 Chronicles 34:30 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 35:3 לַ֠/לְוִיִּם prep det + n Gentilic mp He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; there shall no more be a burden on your shoulders: now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 35:5 לַ/לְוִיִּֽם prep det + n Gentilic mp Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of your brothers the children of the people, and [let there be for each] a portion of a fathers' house of the Levites.
- 2 Chronicles 35:8 וְ/לַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם conj + prep det + n Gentilic mp His princes gave for a freewill-offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and three hundred oxen.
- 2 Chronicles 35:9 הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם לַ/לְוִיִּ֤ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp prep det + n Gentilic mp Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand [small cattle], and five hundred oxen.
- 2 Chronicles 35:10 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֥ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king's commandment.
- 2 Chronicles 35:11 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
- 2 Chronicles 35:14 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּם֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied] in offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
- 2 Chronicles 35:15 הַ/לְוִיִּ֖ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters were at every gate: they didn't need to depart from their service; for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.
- 2 Chronicles 35:18 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֤ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Ezra 17 verses
- Ezra 1:5 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Then rose up the heads of fathers' [houses] of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 2:40 הַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
- Ezra 2:70 וְ֠/הַ/לְוִיִּם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
- Ezra 3:8 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Yahweh.
- Ezra 3:9 הַ/לְוִיִּֽם ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.
- Ezra 3:10 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֤ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, after the order of David king of Israel.
- Ezra 3:12 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּם֩ conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' [houses], the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
- Ezra 6:20 וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּ֛ם conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure: and they killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.
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לויי — transliterated Lêvîyîy — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Levite.” Its earliest occurrence is Exodus 4:14. Spanning 258 verses in 16 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3881 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 258
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 258 distinct verses.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #174
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 174 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 258 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 59 verses 23%
- Numbers 48 verses 19%
- Nehemiah 37 verses 14%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 258 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 147 verses · 57%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 72 verses · 28%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 39 verses · 15%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Levites 231×, Levite 22×, All the levites 4×
- American Standard Version†: Levites 214×, Levite 23×, ' houses of the levites 5×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Levites 208×, Levite 33×, Levitical 14×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Levites 242×, Levite 28×, Levites were 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3881 across 286† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3881 across 285† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 32 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3881 across 281† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 10 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3881 across 286† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
15 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 15 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
לויי I m. Levi (√ and meaning dubious
- 1.
- a. Levi, son of Jacob and Leah, as individual, Gn 29:34; 34:25, 30; 35:23; 49:5 (all J); 35:23; 46:11; Ex 1:2; 6:16(×2) Nu 3:17; 16:1 (all P); 1 Ch 2:1; 5:22; 6:1, 4, 23, 28, 32; 23:6 Ezr 8:18; so בַּת־ל׳ [אֶת־] Ex 2:1 (E), Nu 26:59 (P). e.g. Genesis 29:34
- b. as head of a family of descendants, in phr. בֵּית לֵוִי Ex 2:1 (E), and (with ref. to tribe; late) Nu 17:23, מִשְׁפַּחַת בֵּית ל׳ Zc 12:13. e.g. Exodus 2:1
- c. often בְּנֵי(־)ל׳ Ex 32:26, 28 (E), Jos 21:10 (P), בְּנֵי(־)ל׳ with tribal ref. Nu 3:15; 4:2; 18:21 (charged with service of tabern., and hence to receive tithes; all P); as priests הַכֹּהֲנִים בְּנֵי לֵוִי Dt 21:5; 31:9, cf. Mal 3:3, and לֹא הָיוּ מִבְּנֵי ל׳ 1 K 12:31; from the בְּנֵי ל׳ the Zadokites are selected as priests Ez 40:46; according to 1 Ch 9:18 23:24, 27 בְּנֵי ל׳ are subordinate officials in temple (cf. v 28 f.), cf. 24:20; sharply disting. from priests Ezr 8:15, Ne 12:23 (cf. v 22); so also in later stratum of story of Korah’s revolt Nu 16:7, 8, 10 (P2). e.g. Exodus 32:26
- 2. as name of tribe, שֵׁבֶט ל׳ Dt 18:1 (priestly tribe), מַטֵּה ל׳ Nu 1:49 (in charge of tabern.), 3:6; 18:2 (ministers unto Aaron); לֵוִי alone = (tribe of) Levi Dt 27:12; 33:8 (earlier poem), Nu 26:58 (P), Ez 48:31; Mal 2:4 (priestly tribe, cf. v 1), 1 Ch 21:6; 27:17; מַטֵּה ל׳ = rod of (the tribe of) Levi Nu 17:18 (P); also (no inheritance, because charged with service of tabernacle) Dt 10:9. e.g. Deuteronomy 18:1
לויי II Levite
- 1. sg. of individual, אִישׁ ל׳ Ju 19:1 a certain Levite; pred. וְהוּא ל׳ Ju 17:1 and he was a Levite, so v 9; c. art. הַלּ׳ as subst. the Levite Ex 4:14 (J), Ju 17:10, 11, 12, 13 (as priest), Dt 18:6; 2 Ch 20:14; 31:12, 14, Ezr 10:15; הַנַּעַר הַלּ׳ Ju 18:3, 15; הָאִישׁ הַלּ׳ 20:4. e.g. Judges 19:1
- 2. c. art. הַלֵּוִי as subst. coll. the Levites: Ex 6:19; Nu 3:20, 32; 26:57 (all P); 18:23 (P; charged with service of tabern.); especially D, Dt 12:12, 18, 19; 14:27, 29; 16:1, 14; 26:10, 12, 13; also 1 Ch 24:6; Mal 2:8 (as priestly tribe), שֵׁבֶט הַלּ׳ Dt 10:8 tribe of the Levites (set apart for service), cf. Jos 13:14, 33; 1 Ch 23:14; בְּנֵי־הַלֵּוִי 1 Ch 12:27 (van d. H. v 26) sons of the Levites (i.e. of the tribe); so Ne 10:40 (as tithe-collectors); בֵּית הַלֵּוִי ψ 135:20 house (family, tribe) of the Levites e.g. Exodus 6:19
- 3. pl. לְוִיִּם chiefly Chr and P;—always c. art. הַֽלְוִיִּם except sf. לְוִיֵּנוּ Ne 10:1; the art. is om. by 𝔊𝔙 and most in Is 66:21; always = subst. Levites;— e.g. Nehemiah 10:1
- A.
- a. earlier usage:—as bearing the ark 1 S 6:15; 2 S 15:24; Dt 31:25, so (with priests) 1 K 8:4 = 2 Ch 5:5 (ℌ הכהנים הַל׳; read prob. וְהַל׳ as in K, 𝔊𝔖𝔙 cf. Öt VB); also 1 Ch 15:2, 26, 27; 23:26; 2 Ch 5:4 (for הכהנים ‖ 1 K 8:3). e.g. 1 Samuel 6:15
- b. not disting. from priests by D: הַכֹּהֲנִים הַל׳ Dt 17:9, 18; 18:1; 24:8; 27:9, Jos 3:3; 8:33 (both D; as bearing ark), also Je 33:18, 21 (הַל׳ הַכּ׳), Ez 43:19; 44:15; cf. Dt 18:7; 27:14 Je 33:22; הַכּ׳ הַל׳ likewise 2 Ch 23:18; 30:27 (but read prob. וְהַל׳ after 𝔊𝔖𝔙, cf. Öt and infr.) e.g. Deuteronomy 17:9
- c. as tribal designation, Ex 6:25; Nu 3:39; 4:18, 46; Jos 21:1 (all P), 1 Ch 9:33, 34; 15:12; 2 Ch 35:5; Ne 11:15, 16; 12:24; with ref. to share in land Lv 25:32(×2), 33(×2) (H), Nu 1:47; 2:33; Jos 14:3, 4; 21:3, 4, 8, 20, 27, 34, 38, 39 (all P), 18:7 (D), 1 Ch 6:49; cf. also 2 Ch 11:14†. e.g. Exodus 6:25
- d. set apart for service in tabern., Ex 38:21; Nu 1:50, 51(×2), 53(×2); 2:17; 7:5, 6; 8:6 + 18 times Nu 8 (all P), cf. 1 Ch 6:33; 16:4; ministers to Aaron and his sons Nu 3:9; 8:19; 18:6 (P); set apart for י׳ (as redemption for first-born) Nu 3:12(×2) + 7 times Nu 3 (P); with certain perquisites Nu 18:24, 26, 30 + 9 times Nu (P). e.g. Exodus 38:21
- B. in Chr. the tribal idea is in the background, and thought of Levites as official class is prominent:
- a. disting. from priests הַכּ׳ וְהַל׳ 1 Ch 9:14 (cf. v 10), 13:2; 15:4, 11, 14; 23:2; 24:6, 31 + 67 times Chr.; also Is 66:21 (according to Vrss., but dub.), Ez 44:10; 45:5 (cf. v 4), 48:11, 12, 13, 22. e.g. 1 Chronicles 9:14
- b. as porters, 1 Ch 9:26; 26:17, cf. 34:9; as in charge of music, 1 Ch 15:16, 17, 22 2 Ch 5:12; 29:25, 30; 34:12 Ne 12:27; yet disting. from porters and singers, Ne 7:1; 13:5, 10; disting. also from נְתִינִים 1 Ch 9:2; Ezr 8:20; Ne 10:29; further (with various official functions) 1 Ch 9:31 + 29 times Chr.; of groups of individuals, 2 Ch 17:8(×2); 29:12; 34:12 Ezr 2:40 = Ne 7:43, Ezr 8:33; Ne 3:17; 9:5; 10:10; 12:8, also 8:7 (om. וְ; 𝔙 BeRy Ryle). e.g. 1 Chronicles 9:26
- c. בְּנֵי־הַלְוִיִּם 1 Ch 15:15 (bearing ark), 24:30 (tribal designation).—See, on Levites, especially GfGesch. d. Stammes Levi in MeArchiv i. 68 ff. 208 ff. WeProl. Cap. iv RSOTJC. 435 f., 2nd ed., 360 f. BauPriesterthum 50 f., 68 f., and often e.g. 1 Chronicles 15:15
- A.
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.pr.m. Levi (√ and meaning dubious; Gn 29:34 (J) interpr. as joined, i.e. husband to wife; Nu 18:2, 4 (P; appar. in word-play) of Levites as joined to, attendant upon, Aaron; orig. as attached to, accompanying Isr. from Egypt, LagOr ii. 20 f.; as attached to, attending upon the ark, BauPriest. 74; in this case i. לֵוִי would be derived from ii. לֵוִי in priestly sense; HomA. u. A. 1890, 30 f. proposes Minaean לוא, lauʾân, priest, cf. Id.Süd-Arabic Chrest. 127; ag. all such views v. KauSK 1890, 771 f.; WeProl. ed. 5, 141; Hist. Isr. 145 StaZAW i (1881), 112 ff. GrayProp. Names, p. 96, cf. NöZMG xl (1886), 167, make לֵוִי n. gent. from לֵאָה (q.v.); cf. a further sugg. WeSkizzen iii. 114)—𝔊 Λευ(ε)ι(ν);—
II. adj.gent. Levite;—לֵוִי, 40 times; pl. לְוִיִּם 250 times; sf. 1 pl. לְוִיֵּנוּ Ne 10:1;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from לוי (Lêvîy) (H3878) — Levi.
Forms in the corpus
The 77 distinct written forms H3881 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 17 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3881, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Levite). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
A descendant of the tribe of Levi (Ex. 6:25; Lev. 25:32; Num. 35:2; Josh. 21:3, 41). This name is, however, generally used as the title of that portion of the tribe which was set apart for the subordinate offices of the sanctuary service (1 Kings 8:4; Ezra 2:70), as assistants to the priests.
When the Israelites left Egypt, the ancient manner of worship was still observed by them, the eldest son of each house inheriting the priest's office. At Sinai the first change in this ancient practice was made. A hereditary priesthood in the family of Aaron was then instituted (Ex. 28:1). But it was not till that terrible scene in connection with the sin of the golden calf that the tribe of Levi stood apart and began to occupy a distinct position (Ex. 32). The religious primogeniture was then conferred on this tribe, which henceforth was devoted to the service of the sanctuary (Num. 3:11-13). They were selected for this purpose because of their zeal for the glory of God (Ex. 32:26), and because, as the tribe to which Moses and Aaron belonged, they would naturally stand by the lawgiver in his work.
The Levitical order consisted of all the descendants of Levi's three sons, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; whilst Aaron, Amram's son (Amram, son of Kohat), and his issue constituted the priestly order.
The age and qualification for Levitical service are specified in Num. 4:3, 23, 30, 39, 43, 47.
They were not included among the armies of Israel (Num. 1:47; 2:33; 26:62), but were reckoned by themselves. They were the special guardians of the tabernacle (Num. 1:51; 18:22-24). The Gershonites pitched their tents on the west of the tabernacle (3:23), the Kohathites on the south (3:29), the Merarites on the north (3:35), and the priests on the east (3:38). It was their duty to move the tent and carry the parts of the sacred structure from place to place. They were given to Aaron and his sons the priests to wait upon them and do work for them at the sanctuary services (Num. 8:19; 18:2-6).
As being wholly consecrated to the service of the Lord, they had no territorial possessions. Jehovah was their inheritance (Num. 18:20; 26:62; Deut. 10:9; 18:1, 2), and for their support it was ordained that they should receive from the other tribes the tithes of the produce of the land. Forty-eight cities also were assigned to them, thirteen of which were for the priests "to dwell in", i.e., along with their other inhabitants. Along with their dwellings they had "suburbs", i.e., "commons", for their herds and flocks, and also fields and vineyards (Num. 35:2-5). Nine of these cities were in Judah, three in Naphtali, and four in each of the other tribes (Josh. 21). Six of the Levitical cities were set apart as "cities of refuge" (q.v.). Thus the Levites were scattered among the tribes to keep alive among them the knowledge and service of God. (See PRIEST.)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 220 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 258 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 4:14
- Leviticus 25:32
- Numbers 1:47
- Deuteronomy 12:12
- Joshua 3:3
- Judges 17:7
- 1 Samuel 6:15
- 2 Samuel 15:24
- 1 Kings 8:4
- 1 Chronicles 6:19
- 2 Chronicles 5:4
- Ezra 1:5
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
