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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 Box Exo 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:14 - Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25 - Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites by their clans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:21 - These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:47 - But the Levites were not listed along with them by their ancestral tribe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50 - But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall take care of it and shall camp around the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51 - When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the people of Israel. And the Levites shall keep guard over the tabernacle of the testimony.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17 - “Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they camp, so shall they set out, each in position, standard by standard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:33 - But the Levites were not listed among the people of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:9 - And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12 - “Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:20 - And the sons of Merari by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, by their fathers’ houses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:32 - And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the chiefs of the Levites, and to have oversight of those who kept guard over the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39 - All those listed among the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron listed at the commandment of the LORD, by clans, all the males from a month old and upward, were 22,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41 - And you shall take the Levites for me—I am the LORD—instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the people of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45 - “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. The Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:46 - And as the redemption price for the 273 of the firstborn of the people of Israel, over and above the number of the male Levites,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:49 - So Moses took the redemption money from those who were over and above those redeemed by the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:18 - “Let not the tribe of the clans of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:46 - All those who were listed of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of Israel listed, by their clans and their fathers’ houses,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:5 - “Accept these from them, that they may be used in the service of the tent of meeting, and give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:6 - So Moses took the wagons and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:6 - “Take the Levites from among the people of Israel and cleanse them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9 - And you shall bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the whole congregation of the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:10 - When you bring the Levites before the LORD, the people of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:11 - and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the people of Israel, that they may do the service of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:12 - Then the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD to make atonement for the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:13 - And you shall set the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and shall offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:14 - “Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15 - And after that the Levites shall go in to serve at the tent of meeting, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18 - and I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement for the people of Israel, that there may be no plague among the people of Israel when the people of Israel come near the sanctuary.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20 - Thus did Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the people of Israel to the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the people of Israel did to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:21 - And the Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes, and Aaron offered them as a wave offering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:22 - And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons; as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24 - “This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they[fn] shall come to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - They minister[fn] to their brothers in the tent of meeting by keeping guard, but they shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites in assigning their duties.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:6 - And behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the people of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to the LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24 - For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as a contribution to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26 - “Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, ‘When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:30 - Therefore you shall say to them, ‘When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - And from the people of Israel’s half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the people, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep guard over the tabernacle of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - from the people of Israel’s half Moses took one of every 50, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who kept guard over the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 - The pasturelands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits[fn] all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “The cities that you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be forty-eight, with their pasturelands.

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