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Lexicon :: Strong's G3019 - leuitēs

Aa
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 - And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is there not Aaron thy brother the Levite? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25 - And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:21 - This is the sum of the things for the tabernacle, even the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - And if one of the Levites redeem, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50 - but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51 - And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - But the Levites shall encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17 - Then the tent of meeting shall set forward, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place, by their standards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:33 - But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:9 - And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him on the behalf of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12 - And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the first-born that openeth the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 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 according to their fathers’ houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:32 - And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41 - And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am Jehovah) instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45 - Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:46 - And for the redemption of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the first-born of the children of Israel, that are over and above the number of the Levites,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:49 - And Moses took the redemption-money from them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:18 - Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:46 - All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:5 - Take it of them, that they may be used in doing the service of the tent of meeting; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:6 - And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:6

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9 - And thou shalt present the Levites before the tent of meeting: and thou shalt assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:10 - and thou shalt present the Levites before Jehovah. And the children of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:11 - and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Jehovah for a wave-offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:12 - And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and offer thou the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, unto Jehovah, to make atonement for the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:13 - And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for a wave-offering unto Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:14 - Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15 - And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for a wave-offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18 - And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tent 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 nigh unto the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20 - Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the Levites: according unto all that Jehovah commanded Moses touching the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:21

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:22

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24 - This is that which belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service in the work of the tent of meeting:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:6 - And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given unto Jehovah, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 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 statute for ever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24 - For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering unto Jehovah, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26 - Moreover thou shalt speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up a heave-offering of it for Jehovah, a tithe of the tithe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:30 - Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye heave the best thereof from it, then it shall be reckoned unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the wine-press.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - And of the children of Israel’s half, thou shalt take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the flocks, even of all the cattle, and give them unto the Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, that kept the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall ye give unto the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 - And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee unto: and besides them ye shall give forty and two cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them shall ye give with their suburbs.

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