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HebrewH3881Noun

לֵוִי

le.viy.yi

253Occurrences
H3881Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a Levite or descendant of Levi

or לֵוִי; patronymically from H3878 (לֵוִי);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Someone from the tribe of Levi living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; son of: Israel (H3478) and Leah (H3812); brother of: Reuben (H7205), Simeon (H8095), Judah (H3063), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074) and Dinah (H1783); half-brother of: Dan (H1835H), Naphtali (H5321), Gad (H1410), Asher (H0836), Joseph (H3130) and Benjamin (H1144); father of: Gershon (H1648), Kohath (H6955), Merari (H4847) and Jochebed (H3115) Another name of le.vi (*לֵוִי *"Levi" H3878) § Levite, of Levi "joined to" 1) the descendants of Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob by a) the tribe descended from Levi specially set aside by God for His service

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--PG

Full Description

N:N--PG

Occurrences

לֵוִי appears 253 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Chronicles
59
Numbers
49
Nehemiah
30
1 Chronicles
29
Deuteronomy
21
Ezra
19
Joshua
14
Judges
10

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 13:2BSB

And he said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if this is of the LORD our God, let us send word far and wide to the rest of our brothers in all the land of Israel, and also to the priests and Levites in their cities and pasturelands, so that they may join us.

2 Chronicles 29:5BSB

“Listen to me, O Levites,” he said. “Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.

Deuteronomy 17:18BSB

When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.

Judges 17:13BSB

Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”

Nehemiah 8:11BSB

And the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be still, since today is holy. Do not grieve.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.