LSB

LSB

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's G3019 - leuitēs

Choose a new font size and typeface
Λευίτης
Transliteration
leuitēs (Key)
Pronunciation
lyoo-ee'-tace
Listen
Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

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, )), Λευίτου, , 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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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)

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:14 - Then the anger of Yahweh burned against Moses, and He said, “Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that [fn]he can certainly speak. And moreover, behold, he is coming out to meet you. And he will see you and be glad in his heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25 -

And Aaron’s son Eleazar took one of the daughters of Putiel as a wife, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites according to their families.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:21 -

These are the things numbered for the [fn]tabernacle, the [fn]tabernacle of the testimony, as they were [fn]numbered according to the [fn]command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - ‘As for cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - ‘What, therefore, [fn]belongs to the Levites may be redeemed, and a house sale [fn]in the city of [fn]their possession [fn]reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:47 -

The Levites, however, were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50 - “But you shall appoint the Levites over the [fn]tabernacle of the testimony and over all its furnishings and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall attend to it; they shall also camp around the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51 - “So when the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle encamps, the Levites shall set it up. But the [fn]layman who comes near shall be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - “But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony so that there will be no wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.”
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; just as they camp, so they shall set out, every man in his place by their standards.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:33 - The Levites, however, were not numbered among the sons of Israel, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:9 - “You shall thus give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12 - “Now, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of every firstborn, the first offspring of the womb among the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall be Mine.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:20 -

and the sons of Merari by their families:

Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:32 - and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was the chief of the leaders of Levi and had the oversight of those who keep the responsibility of the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39 - All the numbered men of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the [fn]command of Yahweh by their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41 - “And you shall take the Levites for Me, I am Yahweh, instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the sons of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45 - “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the cattle of the Levites. And the Levites shall be Mine; I am Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:46 - “For the redemption price of the 273 of the firstborn of the sons of Israel who are in excess beyond the Levites,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:49 - So Moses took the money of the redemption price from those who were in excess, beyond those redeemed by the Levites;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:18 - “Do not let the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:46 -

All the numbered men of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel numbered, by their families and by their fathers’ households,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:5 - “Accept these things from them, that they may be [fn]used in the service of the tent of meeting, and you shall give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:6 - So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:6 - “Take the Levites from among the sons of Israel and cleanse them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9 - “So you shall bring the Levites near before the tent of meeting. You shall also assemble the whole congregation of the sons of Israel,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:10 - and bring the Levites near before Yahweh; and the sons of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:11 - “Aaron then shall [fn]present the Levites before Yahweh as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, that they may be qualified to perform the service of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:12 - “Now the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls; then offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:13 - “And you shall have the Levites stand before Aaron and before his sons so as to present them as a wave offering to Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:14 -

“Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall be Mine.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15 - “Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent of meeting. But you shall cleanse them and present them as a wave offering;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18 - “But I have taken the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - “And I have given the Levites as [fn]a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, to perform the service of the sons of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement on behalf of the sons of Israel, so that there will be no plague among the sons of Israel by [fn]their coming near to the sanctuary.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20 -

Thus did Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the sons of Israel to the Levites; according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the sons of Israel did to them.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:21 - The Levites, too, purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes; and Aaron presented them as a wave offering before Yahweh. Aaron also made atonement for them to cleanse them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:22 - Then after that the Levites went in to perform their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons; just as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24 - “This is what applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward [fn]they shall enter to perform their duty in the service of the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - “They may, however, minister to their brothers in the tent of meeting in order to keep up their responsibility, but they themselves shall perform no service. Thus you shall deal with the Levites concerning their responsibilities.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:6 - “And behold, I Myself have taken your brothers the Levites from among the sons of Israel; they are a gift to you, given to Yahweh, to perform the service for the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - “Only the Levites shall perform 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 sons of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24 - “For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they raise up as a contribution offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance; therefore I have said concerning them, ‘They shall have no inheritance among the sons of Israel.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26 - “Moreover, you shall speak to the Levites and say to them, ‘When you take from the sons of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall raise up a contribution offering from it to Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:30 - “And you shall say to them, ‘When you have raised up from it the best of it, then the rest shall be accounted to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the wine vat.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - “And from the sons of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - and from the sons of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to live in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 -

“And the pasture lands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall extend from the wall of the city [fn]outward [fn]one thousand cubits around.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “And the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - “All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, [fn]together with their pasture lands.

Search Results Continued...
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
LSB
 [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
LSB

Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan