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Lexicon :: Strong's G3019 - leuitēs

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Λευίτης
Transliteration
leuitēs (Key)
Pronunciation
lyoo-ee'-tace
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TDNT Reference: 4:239,530

Strong’s Definitions

†Λευΐτης Leuḯtēs, lyoo-ee'-tace; from G3017; a Levite, i.e. descendant of Levi:—Levite.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G3019 in the following manner: Levite (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G3019 in the following manner: Levite (3x).

  1. one of the tribe of Levi

  2. in a narrower sense those were called Levites who, not being of the family of Aaron, for whom alone the priesthood was reserved, served as assistants to the priests. It was their duty to keep the sacred utensils and the temple clean, to provide the sacred loaves, to open and shut the gates of the temple, to sing the sacred hymns in the temple, and to do many other things.

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†Λευΐτης Leuḯtēs, lyoo-ee'-tace; from G3017; a Levite, i.e. descendant of Levi:—Levite.
STRONGS G3019:
Λευίτης (T WH Λευειτης (so Tr except in Acts 4:36; see εἰ, ἰ)), Λευίτου, ὁ, a Levite;
a. one of Levi's posterity.
b. in a norrower sense those were called Levites (Hebrew לֵוִי בְּנֵי, לְוִיִּים) who, not being of the race of Aaron for whom alone the priesthood was reserved, served as assistants of the priests. It was their duty to keep the sacred utensils and the temple clean, to provide the sacred loaves, to open and shut the gates of the temple, to sing sacred hymns in the temple, and do many other things; so Luke 10:32; John 1:19; Acts 4:36; ((Plutarch, quaest. conv. 1. iv. quaest. 6, 5; Philo de vit. Moys. i. § 58). See BB. DD., under the word ; Edersheim, The Temple, 2nd edition, p. 63ff.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Luke
10:32
John
1:19
Acts
4:36; 4:36

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3019 matches the Greek Λευίτης (leuitēs),
which occurs 273 times in 247 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 5 (Exo 4:14–Num 35:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:14 - And the Lord was greatly angered against Moses, and said, Lo! is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he will surely speak to thee; and, behold, he will come forth to meet thee, and beholding thee he will rejoice within himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25 - And Eleazar the son of Aaron took to himself for a wife one of the daughters of Phutiel, and she bore to him Phinees. These are the heads of the family of the Levites, according to their generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:21 - (LXX 37:19) And this was the [fn]construction of the tabernacle of witness, accordingly as it was appointed to Moses; so that the public service should belong to the Levites, through Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities in their possession, shall be always redeemable to the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - And if any one shall redeem a house of the Levites, then shall their sale of the houses of their possession go out in the release; because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:47 - But the Levites of the tribe of their family were not counted among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50 - And do thou set the Levites over the tabernacle of witness, and over all its furniture, and over all things that are in it; and they shall do service in it, and they shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51 - And in removing the tabernacle, the Levites shall take it down, and in pitching the tabernacle they shall set it up: and let the stranger that advances to touch it die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - But let the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of witness fronting it, and so there shall be no sin among the children of Israel; and the Levites themselves shall keep the guard of the tabernacle of witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17 - And then the tabernacle of witness shall be set forward, and the camp of the Levites shall be between the camps; as they shall encamp, so also shall they commence their march, each one next in order to his fellow according to their companies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:33 - But the Levites were not numbered with them, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:9 - And thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron, and to his sons the priests; they are given for a gift to me of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12 - Behold, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel, instead of every male that opens the womb from among the children of Israel: they shall be their ransom, and the Levites shall be mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:20 - and the sons of Merari according to their families, Mooli and Musi; these are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:32 - And the chief over the chief of the Levites, was Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, appointed to keep the charges of the holy things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39 - All the numbering of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the Lord, according to their families, every male from a month old and upwards, were two and twenty thousand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41 - And thou shalt take the Levites for me—I am the Lord—instead of all the first-born of the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the first-born among the cattle of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45 - Take the Levites instead of all the first-born of the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine; I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:46 - And for the ransoms of the two hundred and seventy-three which exceed the Levites in number of the first-born of the sons of Israel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:49 - And Moses took the silver, the ransom of those that exceeded in number [fn]the redemption of the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:18 - Ye shall not destroy the family of Caath from the tribe out of the midst of the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:46 - All that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel numbered, namely, the Levites, according to their families and according to the houses of their lineage,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:5 - Take of them, and they shall be for the works of the services of the tabernacle of witness: and thou shalt give them to the Levites, to each one according to his ministration.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:6 - And Moses took the waggons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:6 - Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and thou shalt purify them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9 - And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of witness; and thou shalt assemble all the congregation of the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:10 - And thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord; and the sons of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:11 - And Aaron shall separate the Levites for a gift before the Lord from the children of Israel: and they shall be prepared [fn]to perform the works of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:12 - And the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the calves; and thou shalt offer one for a sin-offering, and the other for a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord, to make atonement for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:13 - And thou shalt set the Levites before the Lord, and before Aaron, and before his sons; and thou shalt give them as a gift before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:14 - And thou shalt separate the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and they shall be mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15 - And afterwards the Levites shall go in to perform the works of the tabernacle of witness; and thou shalt purify them, and present them before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18 - And I took the Levites in the place of every first-born among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - And I gave the Levites presented as a gift to Aaron and his sons out of the midst of the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of witness, and to make atonement for the children of Israel: thus there shall be none among the sons of Israel to draw nigh to the holy things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20 - And Moses and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites as the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the sons of Israel did to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:21 - So the Levites purified themselves and washed their garments; and Aaron presented them as a gift before the Lord, and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:22 - And afterwards the Levites went in to minister in their service in the tabernacle of witness before Aaron, and before his sons; as the Lord appointed Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24 - This is the ordinance for the Levites; From five and twenty years old and upward, they shall go in to [fn]minister in the tabernacle of witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - And his brother shall serve in the tabernacle of witness to keep charges, but he shall not do works: so shalt thou do to the Levites in their charges.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:6 - And I have taken your brethren the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, a present given to the Lord, to minister in the services of the tabernacle of witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - And the Levite himself shall perform the service of the tabernacle of witness; and they shall bear their iniquities, it is a perpetual statute throughout their generations; and in the midst of the children of Israel they shall not receive an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24 - Because I have given as a distinct portion to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the children of Israel, whatsoever they shall offer to the Lord; therefore I said to them, In the midst of the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26 - Thou shalt also speak to the Levites, and shalt say to them, If ye take the tithe from the children of Israel, which I have given you from them for an inheritance, then shall ye separate from it a heave-offering to the Lord, a tenth of the tenth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:30 - And thou shalt say to them, When ye shall offer the first-fruits from it, then shall it be reckoned to the Levites as produce from the threshing-floor, and as produce from the wine-press.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - And from the half belonging to the children of Israel thou shalt take one [fn]in fifty from the men, and from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses, and from all the cattle; and thou shalt give them to the Levites that keep the charges in the tabernacle of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - And Moses took of the half belonging to the children of Israel [fn]the fiftieth part, of men and of cattle, and he gave them to the Levites who keep the charges of the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - Give orders to the children of Israel, and they shall give to the Levites cities to dwell in from the [fn]lot of their possession, and they shall give to the Levites the suburbs of the cities round about [fn]them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 - And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outwards two thousand cubits round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - And ye shall give the cities to the Levites, the six cities of refuge which ye shall give for the slayer to flee thither, and in addition to these, forty-two cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - Ye shall give to the Levites in all forty-eight cities, them and their suburbs.

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