kahan · serve as priest

What it means

kahan (כָּהַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “serve as priest”.

Serve as 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. To hold the office of priest: offering sacrifices and tending the sanctuary.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• serve as priests ×12
• serve as priest ×4
• served as priest ×2
• served as priests ×2
• being priest ×1
• like a priest ×1
• serving as priests ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×12
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1

• Exodus 28:1

  And you, bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, to serve as priest for me: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron.

• Exodus 28:3

  And you shall speak to all the wise of heart, whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, that they make the garments of Aaron to consecrate him to serve as priest for me.

• Exodus 28:4

  These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a checkered tunic, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and for his sons to serve as priests for me.

• Exodus 28:41

  You shall clothe with them Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, and anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve as priests for me.

• Exodus 29:1

  This is the thing that you shall do to them to consecrate them to serve as priests for me: take one young bull and two rams without defect,

• Exodus 29:44

  I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; and Aaron and his sons I will consecrate to serve as priests for me.

• Exodus 30:30

  Aaron and his sons you shall anoint and consecrate them to serve as priests for me.

• Exodus 31:10

  and the woven garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to serve as priests;

• Exodus 35:19

  the woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to serve as priests.’”

• Exodus 39:41

  the woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to serve as priests.

• Exodus 40:13

  And you shall clothe Aaron with the holy garments, and anoint him and consecrate him, so that he may serve as priest to me.

• 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.”

• Leviticus 7:35

  This is the portion of Aaron and the portion of his sons from the fire offerings of YHWH, on the day he brought them near to serve as priests to YHWH,

• Leviticus 16:32

  And the priest who is anointed and ordained to serve as priest in place of his father shall make expiation; he shall put on the linen garments, the holy garments.

• Numbers 3:3

  These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.

• Numbers 3:4

  But Nadab and Abihu died before YHWH when they offered strange fire before YHWH in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons; so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the presence of Aaron their father.

• Deuteronomy 10:6

  (The sons of Israel set out from the wells of Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his son served as priest in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 6:10

  and Johanan fathered Azariah; he is the one who served as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 24:2

  Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

• 2 Chronicles 11:14

  For the Levites abandoned their pasturelands and their possession and went to Judah and to Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to YHWH.

• Isaiah 61:10

  I will greatly rejoice in YHWH; my soul will exult in my Elohim, for he has clothed me with garments of salvation; with the robe of righteousness he has wrapped me, as a bridegroom puts on the headdress like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

• Ezekiel 44:13

  And they shall not come near to me to serve as priests for me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the most holy things; and they shall bear their shame and their abominations that they have committed.

• Hosea 4:6

  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from being priest to me; and because you have forgotten the law of your Elohim, I also will forget your children.