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title: קְהָתִי — Kohathite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קְהָתִי (6956), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 15 times: Kohathite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קְהָתִי

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«קְהָתִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Kohathite** — 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:** 15 times · **Key:** 6956 · **BDB:** קְהָתִי

### Glosses

the.Kohathite\[s\] (12); the.Kohathites (2); Kohathites (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קְהָתִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6956/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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,

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

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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;

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