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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 - So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and He said: “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And look, he is also coming out to meet you. 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 for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:21 - This is the inventory of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, which was counted according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - ‘Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - ‘And if a man purchases a house from the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:47 - But the Levites were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50 - “but you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, over all its furnishings, and over all things that belong to it; they shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they shall attend to it and camp around the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51 - “And when the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The outsider who comes near 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, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the Testimony.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17 - “And the tabernacle of meeting shall move out with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps; as they camp, so they shall move out, everyone in his place, by their standards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:33 - But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, just 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 given entirely to him[fn] from among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12 - “Now behold, I Myself have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the children of Israel. Therefore 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 families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families 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 leaders of the Levites, with oversight of those who kept charge of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39 - All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and above, were twenty-two thousand.

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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 children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children 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 children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. 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 for the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who are more than the number of the 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 who were redeemed by the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:18 - “Do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:46 - All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered, by their families and by 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 doing the work of the tabernacle of meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:6 - So Moses took the carts 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 children of Israel and cleanse them ceremonially.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9 - “And you shall bring the Levites before the tabernacle of meeting, and you shall gather together the whole congregation of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:10 - “So you shall bring the Levites before the LORD, and the children 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, like a wave offering from the children of Israel, that they may perform the work 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 young bulls, and you shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as 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 stand the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and then offer them like 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 children of Israel, and the Levites shall be Mine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15 - “After that the Levites shall go in to service the tabernacle of meeting. So you shall cleanse them and offer them, like a wave offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18 - “I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the children 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 children of Israel, to do the work for the children of Israel in the tabernacle of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, that there be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near the sanctuary.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20 - Thus Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel did to the Levites; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children 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 and washed their clothes; then Aaron presented them, like 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 - After that the Levites went in to do their work in the tabernacle of meeting before Aaron and his sons; as the LORD 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 is what pertains to the Levites: From twenty-five years old and above one may enter to perform service in the work of the tabernacle of meeting;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - “They may minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of meeting, to attend to needs, but they themselves shall do no work. Thus you shall do to the Levites regarding their duties.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:6 - “Behold, I Myself have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel; they are a gift to you, given by the LORD, to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - “But the Levites shall perform the work of the tabernacle of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute forever, throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24 - “For the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer up as a heave offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26 - “Speak thus to the Levites, and say to them: ‘When you take from the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it to the LORD, a tenth 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 lifted up the best of it, then the rest shall be accounted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor and as the produce of the winepress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - “And from the children of Israel’s half you shall take one of every fifty, drawn from the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep, from all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - and from the children of Israel’s half Moses took one of every fifty, drawn from man and beast, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of 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 children of Israel that they give the Levites cities to dwell in from the inheritance of their possession, and you shall also give the Levites common-land around the cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 - “The common-land of the cities which you will give the Levites shall extend from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “Now among the cities which you will give to the Levites you shall appoint six cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. And to these you shall add forty-two cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - “So all the cities you will give to the Levites shall be forty-eight; these you shall give with their common-land.

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