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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 - Then the LORD became angry with Moses, and he said, "What about your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he can speak very well. Moreover, he is coming 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 - Now Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' households of Levi according to their clans.

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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 by the order of Moses, being the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, 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 houses in the cities which they possess, the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem - the sale of a house which is his property in a city - must revert in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:47 - But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

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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, over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they must attend to it and camp around it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51 - Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites must take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be reassembled, the Levites must set it up. Any unauthorized person who approaches it must be killed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the LORD's anger will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care of 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 with the camp of the Levites will travel in the middle of the camps. They will travel in the same order as they camped, each in his own place under his standard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:33 - But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:9 - You are to assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively to him out of all the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12 - "Look, I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:20 - The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:32 - Now the head of all the Levitical leaders was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest. He was appointed over those who were responsible for 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 by the word of the LORD, according to their families, every male 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 take the Levites for me - I am the LORD - instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45 - "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will 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 273 firstborn males of the Israelites who exceed 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 in excess of those redeemed by the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:18 - "Do not allow the tribe of the families of the Kohathites to be cut off 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 clans,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:5 - "Receive these gifts from them, that they may be used in doing the work of the tent of meeting; and you must give them to the Levites, to every man as his service requires."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:6 - So Moses accepted 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 Israelites and purify them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9 - You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:10 - Then you are to bring the Levites before the LORD, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on the Levites;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:11 - and Aaron is to offer the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the Israelites, that they may do the work of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:12 - When the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole 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 - You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:14 - And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15 - "After this, the Levites will go in to do the work of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them and offer them like a wave offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18 - So I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn sons among the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the work for the Israelites in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites, so there will be no plague among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20 - So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:21 - The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothing; then Aaron presented them like a wave offering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:22 - After this, the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons. As the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24 - "This is what pertains to the Levites: At the age of twenty-five years and upward one may begin to join the company in the work of the tent of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - They may assist their colleagues in the tent of meeting, to attend to needs, but they must do no work. This is the way you must establish the Levites regarding their duties."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:6 - I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites from among the Israelites. They are given to you as a gift from the LORD, to perform the duties of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24 - But I have given to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered to the LORD as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26 - "You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them, 'When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up from it as a raised offering 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 will say to them, 'When you offer up the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - From the Israelites' half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep - from every kind of animal - and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the LORD's tabernacle."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - From the Israelites' share Moses took one of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the Levites who were responsible for the care of the Lord's tabernacle, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - "Instruct the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 - The grazing lands around the towns that you will give to the Levites must extend to a distance of 500 yards from the town wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. And you must give them forty-two other towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - "So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.

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