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title: כְּהֻנָּה — priesthood · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּהֻנָּה (3550), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 14 times: priesthood. BDB 1906: n.f. priesthood. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּהֻנָּה

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«כְּהֻנָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **priesthood** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 14 times · **Key:** 3550 · **BDB:** כְּהֻנָּה

### Glosses

priesthood (8); the.priesthood (2); \[is\].the.priesthood (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּהֻנָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3550/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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