levi · Levi

What it means

levi (לֵוִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Levi”.

The third son of Jacob and Leah; the tribe of the priests comes from him. The name sounds like "be joined".

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.

How it is translated

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

• Levi ×63
• Levites ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Exodus×8
• Numbers×15
• Deuteronomy×7
• Joshua×3
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×13
• Ezra×2
• Nehemiah×2
• Psalms×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×3

• Genesis 29:34

  She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” That is why he called his name Levi.

• Genesis 34:25

  It happened on the third day, while they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, brothers of Dinah, took each his sword and came upon the city, which was unsuspecting, and killed every male.

• Genesis 34:30

  Jacob said to Simeon and to Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And I have few men; if they gather against me and strike me, I will be destroyed, I and my house.”

• Genesis 35:23

  The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

• Genesis 46:11

  The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

• Genesis 49:5

  Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords.

• Exodus 1:2

  Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

• Exodus 2:1

  A man from the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi.

• Exodus 6:16

  These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty- seven years.

• Exodus 6:19

  The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

• Exodus 32:26

  And Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Whoever is for YHWH, come to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered to him.

• Exodus 32:28

  And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and there fell of the people on that day about three thousand men.

• Numbers 1:49

  “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, and you shall not take a census of them among the sons of Israel.

• Numbers 3:6

  “Bring near the tribe of Levi and set it before Aaron the priest, and they shall minister to him.

• Numbers 3:15

  “Count the sons of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall count.”

• Numbers 3:17

  And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

• Numbers 4:2

  “Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,

• Numbers 16:1

  Now Korah son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, took men, with Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, sons of Reuben.

• Numbers 16:7

  and put fire in them and lay incense on them before YHWH tomorrow, and the man whom YHWH chooses, he shall be the holy one. Enough of you, sons of Levi!”

• Numbers 16:8

  And Moses said to Korah, “Hear, please, sons of Levi!

• 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 17:3

  and the name of Aaron you shall write on the staff of Levi, for there shall be one staff for the head of their fathers’ house.

• Numbers 17:8

  And it happened on the next day that Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and look, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and it had put forth buds and produced blossoms and ripened almonds.

• Numbers 18:2

  And also your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, so that they may be joined to you and minister to you, while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

• Numbers 18:21

  And to the sons of Levi, look, I have given every tithe in Israel as an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, the service of the tent of meeting.

• Numbers 26:59

  The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.

• Deuteronomy 10:8

  At that time YHWH set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of YHWH, to stand before YHWH to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.

• Deuteronomy 10:9

  Therefore Levi has had no portion or inheritance with his brothers; YHWH, he is his inheritance, as YHWH your Elohim has spoken to him.

• Deuteronomy 18:1

  The priests, the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; the fire offerings of YHWH and his inheritance they shall eat.

• Deuteronomy 21:5

  And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for YHWH your Elohim has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the name of YHWH, and by their word every dispute and every blow shall be settled.

• Deuteronomy 27:12

  “These shall stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim when you cross the Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin.

• Deuteronomy 31:9

  And Moses wrote this instruction and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of YHWH, and to all the elders of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 33:8

  And of Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim belong to your faithful man, whom you tested at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah;

• Joshua 13:14

  Only to the tribe of Levi he did not give an inheritance: the fire offerings of YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, that is his inheritance, just as he spoke to him.

• Joshua 13:33

  But to the tribe of Levi Moses did not give an inheritance; YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, he is their inheritance, just as he spoke to them.

• Joshua 21:10

  and they went to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, of the sons of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.

• 1 Kings 12:31

  He also made a house of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

• 1 Chronicles 2:1

  These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

• 1 Chronicles 6:1

  The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

• 1 Chronicles 6:16

  The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

And 24 more times.