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Lexicon :: Strong's H3881 - lᵊvî

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לְוִי
Transliteration
lᵊvî
Pronunciation
lay-vee-ee'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Patronymically from לֵוִי (H3878)
Strong’s Definitions

לֵוִיִּי Lêvîyîy, lay-vee-ee'; or לֵוִי Lêvîy; patronymically from H3878; a Levite or descendant of Levi:—Leviite.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 286x

The KJV translates Strong's H3881 in the following manner: Levite (286x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 286x
The KJV translates Strong's H3881 in the following manner: Levite (286x).

  1. Levite = see Levi "joined to"

    1. the descendants of Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah

      1. the tribe descended from Levi specially set aside by God for His service

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לֵוִיִּי Lêvîyîy, lay-vee-ee'; or לֵוִי Lêvîy; patronymically from H3878; a Levite or descendant of Levi:—Leviite.
STRONGS H3881: Abbreviations
II. לֵוִי 291 adjective, of a people Levite; — לֵוִי, + 40 times; plural לֵוִיִּם + 250 times; suffix לְוִיֵּנוּ Nehemiah 10:1; —
† 1. singular of individual, אִישׁ ל׳ Judges 19:1 a certain Levite; predicate וְהוּא ל׳ Judges 17:1 and he was a Levite, so Judges 17:9; with article הַלּ׳ as substantive the Levite Exodus 4:11 (J), Judges 17:10, 11, 12, 13 (as priest), Deuteronomy 18:6; 2 Chronicles 20:14; 31:12, 14; Ezra 10:15; הַנַּעַר הַלּ׳ Judges 18:3, 15; הָאִישׁ הַלּ׳ Judges 20:4. followed usually
† 2. with article הַלֵּוִי as substantive collective the Levites: Exodus 6:19; Numbers 3:20, 32; Numbers 26:57 (all P); Numbers 18:23 (P; charged with service of tabernacle); especially D, Deuteronomy 12:12, 18, 19; Deuteronomy 14:27, 29; Deuteronomy 16:1, 14; Deuteronomy 26:10, 12, 13; also 1 Chronicles 24:6; Malachi 2:8 (as priestly tribe); שֵׁבָט הַלּ׳ Deuteronomy 10:8 tribe of the Levites (set apart for service), compare Joshua 13:14, 33; 1 Chronicles 23:14; בְּנֵיהַֿלֵּוִי 1 Chronicles 12:27 (van d. H 1 Chronicles 12:26) sons of the Levites (i.e. of the tribe); so Nehemiah 10:40 [Nehemiah 10:39] (as tithe-collectors); בֵּית הַלֵּוִי Psalm 135:20 house (family, tribe) of the Levites.
3. plural לְוִיִּם chiefly Chronicles and P; — always with article ַֽֽֽהלְוִיִּם except suffix לוִיֵּנוּ Nehemiah 10:1; the article is omitted by Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate and most in Isaiah 66:21; always = substantive Levites; — 1.
† a. earlier usage: — as bearing the ark 1 Samuel 6:15; 2 Samuel 15:24; Deuteronomy 31:25, so (with priests) 1 Kings 8:4 2 Chronicles 5:5 (HCT הכהנים הַל׳; read probably וְהַל׳ as in Kings, Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate compare Öttli VB); also 1 Chronicles is 1 Chronicles 15:2, 1 Chronicles 15:26, 1 Chronicles 15:27; 1 Chronicles 23:26; 2 Chronicles 5:4 (for הכהנים || 1 Kings 8:3).
† b. not distinguished from priests by D: הַכֹּהֲנִים הַל׳ Deuteronomy 17:9, 18; Deuteronomy 18:1; Deuteronomy 24:8; Deuteronomy 27:9; Joshua 3:3; Joshua 8:33 (both D; as bearing ark), also Jeremiah 33:18, 21 ׅ הַכ׳ (הַל׳, Ezekiel 43:19; Ezekiel 44:15; compare Deuteronomy 18:7; Deuteronomy 27:14; Jeremiah 33:22; הַל׳ הַכ׳ likewise 2 Chronicles 23:18; 30:27 (but read probably וְהַל׳ after Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate, compare Öttli and below)
† c. as tribal designation, Exodus 6:25; Numbers 3:39; Numbers 4:18, 46; Joshua 21:1 (all P), 1 Chronicles 9:33, 34; 1 Chronicles 15:12; 2 Chronicles 35:5; Nehemiah 11:15, 16; Nehemiah 12:24; with reference to share in land Leviticus 25:32 (twice in verse); Leviticus 25:33 (twice in verse) (H), Numbers 1:47; Numbers 2:33; Joshua 14:3, 4; Joshua 21:3, 4, 8, 20, 27, 34, 38, 39 (all P), Joshua 18:7 (D), 1 Chronicles 6:49; compare also † 2 Chronicles 11:14.
d. set apart for service in tabernacle, Exodus 38:21; Numbers 1:50, 51 (twice in verse); Numbers 1:53 (twice in verse); Numbers 2:17; Numbers 7:5, 6; Numbers 8:6 + 18 times Numbers 8 (all p), compare 1 Chronicles 6:33; 1 Chronicles 16:4; ministers to Aaron and his sons Numbers 3:9; Numbers 8:19; Numbers 18:6 (P); set apart for י׳ (as redemption for first-born) Numbers 3:12 (twice in verse) + 7 times Numbers 3 (P); with certain perquisites Numbers 18:24, 26, 30 + 9 times Numbers (P).
2. in Chronicles the tribal idea is in the background, and thought of Levites as official class is prominent:
a. distinguished from priests וְהַל׳ הַכ׳ 1 Chronicles 9:14 (compare 1 Chronicles 9:10), 1 Chronicles 13:2; 1 Chronicles 15:4, 11, 14; 1 Chronicles 23:2; 1 Chronicles 24:6, 31 + 67 times Chronicles; also Isaiah 66:21 (according to Vrss., but dubious), Ezekiel 44:10; Ezekiel 45:5 (compare Ezekiel 45:4), Ezekiel 48:11, 12, 13, 22.
b. as porters, 1 Chronicles 9:26; 1 Chronicles 26:17, compare 1 Chronicles 34:9; as in charge of music, 1 Chronicles 15:16, 17, 22; 2 Chronicles 5:12; 29:25, 30; 34:12; Nehemiah 12:27; yet distinguished from porters and singers, Nehemiah 7:1; Nehemiah 13:5, 10; distinguished also from נְתִינִים 1 Chronicles 9:2; Ezra 8:20; Nehemiah 10:29; further (with various official functions) 1 Chronicles 9:31 + 29 times Chronicles; of groups of individuals, 2 Chronicles 17:8 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 29:12; 34:12; Ezra 2:40 = Nehemiah 7:43; Ezra 8:33; Nehemiah 3:17; Nehemiah 9:5; Nehemiah 10:10; Nehemiah 12:8, also Nehemiah 8:7 (omitted וְ; Vulgate BeRy Ryle).
c. בְּנֵיהַֿלְוִיִּם 1 Chronicles 15:15 (bearing ark), 1 Chronicles 24:30 (tribal designation). — See, on Levites, especially GfGeschichte. d. Stammes Levi in MeArchiv i. 68 ff. 208 ff. WeProl. Cap. iv RSOTJC. 435 f., 2nd ed., 360 f. BauPriesterthum 50 f., 68 f., and often.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

4:11; 6:19; 6:25; 38:21

Leviticus

25:32; 25:33

Numbers

1:47; 1:50; 1:51; 1:53; 2:17; 2:33; 3; 3:9; 3:12; 3:20; 3:32; 3:39; 4:18; 4:46; 7:5; 7:6; 8; 8:6; 8:19; 18:6; 18:23; 18:24; 18:26; 18:30; 26:57

Deuteronomy

10:8; 12:12; 12:18; 12:19; 14:27; 14:29; 16:1; 16:14; 17:9; 17:18; 18:1; 18:6; 18:7; 24:8; 26:10; 26:12; 26:13; 27:9; 27:14; 31:25

Joshua

3:3; 8:33; 13:14; 13:33; 14:3; 14:4; 18:7; 21:1; 21:3; 21:4; 21:8; 21:20; 21:27; 21:34; 21:38; 21:39

Judges

17:1; 17:9; 17:10; 17:11; 17:12; 17:13; 18:3; 18:15; 19:1; 20:4

1 Samuel

6:15

2 Samuel

15:24

1 Kings

8:3; 8:4

1 Chronicles

6:33; 6:49; 9:2; 9:10; 9:14; 9:26; 9:31; 9:33; 9:34; 12:26; 12:27; 13:2; 15:2; 15:4; 15:11; 15:12; 15:14; 15:15; 15:16; 15:17; 15:22; 15:26; 15:27; 16:4; 23:2; 23:14; 23:26; 24:6; 24:6; 24:30; 24:31; 26:17

2 Chronicles

5:4; 5:5; 5:12; 11:14; 17:8; 20:14; 23:18; 29:12; 29:25; 29:30; 30:27; 31:12; 31:14; 34:12; 34:12; 35:5

Ezra

2:40; 8:20; 8:33; 10:15

Nehemiah

3:17; 7:1; 7:43; 8:7; 9:5; 10:1; 10:1; 10:10; 10:29; 10:39; 11:15; 11:16; 12:8; 12:24; 12:27; 13:5; 13:10

Psalms

135:20

Isaiah

66:21; 66:21

Jeremiah

33:18; 33:21; 33:22

Ezekiel

43:19; 44:10; 44:15; 45:4; 45:5; 48:11; 48:12; 48:13; 48:22

Malachi

2:8

H3881

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3881 matches the Hebrew לְוִי (lᵊvî),
which occurs 286 times in 258 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 6 (1Ch 6:48–2Ch 23:4)

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Their [fn]relatives the Levites H3881 were given over unto all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

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So the sons of Israel gave to the Levites H3881 the cities with their pasture lands.

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Now the first who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites H3881, and the [fn]temple servants.

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Of the Levites H3881 were Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:26 - for the four chief gatekeepers who were Levites H3881, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:31 - And Mattithiah, one of the Levites H3881, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things which were baked in pans.

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Now these are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites H3881, who lived in the chambers of the temple free from other service; for they were over them in their work day and night.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:34 - These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites H3881 according to their generations, the heads [fn]who lived in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:2 - And David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is from Yahweh our God, let us send everywhere to our relatives who remain in all the lands of Israel, also to the priests and Levites H3881 who are with them in their cities with pasture lands, that they may gather with us;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:2 - And David said, “No one is to carry the ark of God but the Levites H3881; for Yahweh chose them to carry the ark of [fn]God and to minister to Him forever.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:4 - And David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites H3881:

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Then David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites H3881, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and Amminadab,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:12 - and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites H3881; set yourselves apart as holy, both you and your relatives, that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:14 - So the priests and the Levites H3881 set themselves apart as holy to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:15 - And the sons of the Levites H3881 carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses had commanded according to the word of Yahweh.

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Then David said to the chiefs of the Levites H3881 to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise a sound of gladness.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:17 - So the Levites H3881 appointed Heman the son of Joel, and from his relatives, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and from the sons of Merari their relatives, Ethan the son of Kushaiah,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:22 - Chenaniah, chief of the Levites H3881, was in charge of the [fn]singing; he gave instruction in singing because he had understanding.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:26 - Now this happened because God was helping the Levites H3881 who were carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. And they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:27 - Now David was clothed with a robe of fine linen with all the Levites H3881 who were carrying the ark, as well as the singers and Chenaniah the leader of the singing with the singers. David also wore a linen ephod.

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And he made some of the Levites H3881 ministers before the ark of Yahweh, even to bring remembrance and to thank and praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:2 - And he gathered together all the leaders of Israel with the priests and the Levites H3881.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:3 - And the Levites H3881 were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and their number by [fn]census of men was 38,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:26 - “Also, the Levites H3881 will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings for its service.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:27 - For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and upward.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:6 - Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel the scribe, from the Levites H3881, wrote them down in the presence of the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites H3881; one father’s household taken for Eleazar and one taken for Ithamar.

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The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder and Jerimoth.

These were the sons of the Levites H3881 according to their fathers’ households.

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These also cast lots alongside their [fn]relatives the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites H3881—the head of fathers’ households alongside those of his younger brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:17 - On the east there were six Levites H3881, on the north four daily, on the south four daily, and at the storerooms two by two.

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[fn]As for the Levites H3881, Ahijhah was over the treasures of the house of God and of the treasures of the holy gifts.

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for Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel;

for Aaron, Zadok;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:13 - also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites H3881 and for all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh and for all the utensils of service in the house of Yahweh;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:21 - “Now behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites H3881 for all the service of the house of God, and every willing man with wisdom will be with you in all the work for all the service. The officials also and all the people will be entirely at your command.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:4 - Then all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites H3881 carried the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:5 - And they brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the holy utensils which were in the tent; the Levitical H3881 priests brought them up.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12 - and all the Levitical H3881 singers, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives, clothed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, standing east of the altar, and with them 120 priests blowing trumpets

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:6 - And the priests stood at their posts, and the Levites H3881 also, with the instruments of music to Yahweh, which King David had made for giving thanks to Yahweh-“for His lovingkindness endures forever”—whenever [fn]he gave praise by their hand, while the priests on the other side blew trumpets; and all Israel was standing.

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And according to the judgment of his father David, he caused the divisions of the priests to stand for their service, and the Levites H3881 for their responsibilities to praise and minister before the priests according to the daily rule, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at every gate; for David the man of God had so commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:15 - And they did not turn away from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites H3881 in any manner or concerning the treasuries.

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Moreover, the priests and the Levites H3881 who were in all Israel took their stand with him from all their territories.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:14 - For the Levites H3881 left their pasture lands and their possession of land and went to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from ministering as priests to Yahweh—

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:9 - “Have you not driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron and the Levites H3881, and made for yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to ordain himself with a bull from the herd and seven rams, even he may become a priest of what are no gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:10 - “But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken Him; and the sons of Aaron are ministering to Yahweh as priests, and the Levites H3881 are in their work.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:8 - and with them the Levites H3881, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites H3881; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.

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In Jerusalem also Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites H3881 and priests, and some of the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh and to judge [fn]disputes. So they returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:11 - “And behold, Amariah the chief priest will be over you in [fn]all that pertains to Yahweh, and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in [fn]all that pertains to the king. Also the Levites H3881 shall be officers before you. Be strong and act, and Yahweh be with the one who is good.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:14 - Then in the midst of the assembly the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite H3881 of the sons of Asaph;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:19 - Then the Levites H3881, from the sons of the Kohathites and of the sons of the Korahites, rose up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:2 - And they went around Judah and gathered the Levites H3881 from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:4 - “This is the thing which you shall do: one-third of you, of the priests and Levites H3881 who come in on the sabbath, shall be gatekeepers at the thresholds,

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