קְהָתִי
Kohathites
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 12 times (80%)
- Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 3 times (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 15 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6956 appears — 15 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 7 verses
- Numbers 3:27 הַ/קְּהָתִֽי ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.
- Numbers 3:30 הַ/קְּהָתִ֑י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms The prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
- Numbers 4:18 הַ/קְּהָתִ֑י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms "Don't cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;
- Numbers 4:34 הַ/קְּהָתִ֑י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers' houses,
- Numbers 4:37 הַ/קְּהָתִ֔י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Numbers 10:21 הַ/קְּהָתִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and [the others] did set up the tent against their coming.
- Numbers 26:57 הַ/קְּהָתִ֑י 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.
Joshua 2 verses
- Joshua 21:4 הַ/קְּהָתִ֑י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms 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 21:10 הַ/קְּהָתִ֖י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.
1 Chronicles 3 verses
- 1 Chronicles 6:33 הַ/קְּהָתִ֔י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms These are those who waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
- 1 Chronicles 6:54 הַ/קְּהָתִ֔י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Now these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the [first] lot),
- 1 Chronicles 9:32 הַ/קְּהָתִ֛י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
2 Chronicles 3 verses
- 2 Chronicles 20:19 הַ/קְּהָתִ֖ים 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 29:12 הַ/קְּהָתִי֒ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms 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 34:12 הַ/קְּהָתִ֖ים 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.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Kohathites” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name קהתי (Qŏhâthîy). Scripture first uses it in Numbers 3:27. With 15 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Numbers, which alone accounts for 47% of its uses. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6956 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 →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,836
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,836 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 7 verses 47%
- 1 Chronicles 3 verses 20%
- 2 Chronicles 3 verses 20%
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 15 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 7 verses · 47%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 40%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 13%
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).
- King James Version: Kohathites 14×
- American Standard Version: Kohathites 14×
- Berean Standard Bible: Kohathite 5×, Kohathites 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Kohathite 11×, Kohathites 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6956 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6956 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6956 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 4 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6956 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Kohathites = see Kohath " assembly"
- the descendants of Kohath, the 2nd son of Levi
Word origin
קְהָתִי adj.gent. of foreg. [ s.ap.ai ]. c. art. הַקּ׳ as subst. coll.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קהת (Qᵉhâth) (H6955) — Kohath.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H6956 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/קְּהָתִ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 21:4 | 5 |
| הַ/קְּהָתִ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 6:33 | 3 |
| הַ/קְּהָתִ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 20:19 | 2 |
| הַ/קְּהָתִ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Numbers 10:21 | 1 |
| הַ/קְּהָתִ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 21:10 | 1 |
| הַ/קְּהָתִ֛י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 9:32 | 1 |
| הַ/קְּהָתִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 3:27 | 1 |
| הַ/קְּהָתִי֒ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 29:12 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Kohathites). 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
The descendants of Kohath. They formed the first of the three divisions of the Levites (Ex. 6:16, 18; Num. 3:17). In the journeyings of the Israelites they had the charge of the most holy portion of the vessels of the tabernacle, including the ark (Num. 4). Their place in the marching and encampment was south of the tabernacle (Num. 3:29, 31). Their numbers at different times are specified (3:28; 4:36; 26:57, 62). Samuel was of this division.
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 15 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 15 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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