kehuna · priesthood

What it means

kehuna (כְּהֻנָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “priesthood”.

The office of a priest.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The office of priest, passed from father to son and received by anointing.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• priesthood ×13
• priestly offices ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Numbers×6
• Joshua×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×3

• Exodus 29:9

  You shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind caps on them, and the priesthood shall be theirs by a statute forever. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.

• Exodus 40:15

  And you shall anoint them as you anointed their father, so that they may serve as priests to me; and their anointing shall be for them for an eternal priesthood throughout their generations.”

• Numbers 3:10

  And Aaron and his sons you shall appoint, and they shall keep their priesthood; and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

• Numbers 16:10

  and that he has brought near you and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you? And would you seek the priesthood also?

• Numbers 18:1

  And YHWH said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

• Numbers 18:7

  But you and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood in every matter of the altar and of what is inside the veil, and you shall serve. As a service of gift I give your priesthood, and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

• Numbers 25:13

  It will be for him and for his offspring after him a covenant of priesthood forever, because he was jealous for his Elohim and made expiation for the sons of Israel.”

• Joshua 18:7

  For the Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of YHWH is their inheritance; and Gad, Reuben, and the half tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan to the east, which Moses the servant of YHWH gave them.”

• 1 Samuel 2:36

  And it will be that everyone who is left in your house will come to bow down to him for a piece of silver and a round loaf of bread, and will say, ‘Please attach me to one of the priestly offices so that I may eat a morsel of bread.’”

• Ezra 2:62

  These sought their record, that of those registered in the genealogy, but they were not found, and they were excluded as unclean from the priesthood.

• Nehemiah 7:64

  These sought their record, that of those registered in the genealogy, but it was not found, and they were excluded as unclean from the priesthood.

• Nehemiah 13:29

  Remember them, my Elohim, because of the defilements of the priesthood and of the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

And 2 more times.