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Lexicon :: Strong's H3878 - lēvî

Aa
לֵוִי
Transliteration
lēvî
Pronunciation
lay-vee'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1093

Strong’s Definitions

לֵוִי Lêvîy, lay-vee'; from H3867; attached; Levi, a son of Jacob:—Levi. See also H3879, H3881.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 64x

The KJV translates Strong's H3878 in the following manner: Levi (64x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 64x
The KJV translates Strong's H3878 in the following manner: Levi (64x).

  1. Levi = "joined to"

    1. the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah and progenitor of tribe of Levites

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לֵוִי Lêvîy, lay-vee'; from H3867; attached; Levi, a son of Jacob:—Levi. See also H3879, H3881.
STRONGS H3878: Abbreviations
† I. לֵוִי proper name, masculine Levi (√ and meaning dubious; Genesis 29:34 (J) interpreted as joined, i.e. husband to wife; Numbers 18:2, 4 (P; apparently in word-play) of Levites as joined to, attendant upon, Aaron; originally as attached to, accompanying Israel from Egypt, LagOr. ii. 20 f.; as attached to, attending upon the ark, BauPriest. 74; in this case I. לֵוִי would be derived from II. לֵוִי in priestly sense; HomA. u. A. 1890, 30 f. proposes Minaean לוא, lau'ân, priest, compare IdSüd-Arab. Chrest. 127; against all such views see KauSK 1890, 771 f. WeProl. ed. 5, 141; Hist. Israel 145 StaZAW i (1881), 112 ff. GrayProp. Names, p. 96, compare NöZMG xi (1886). 167, make לֵוִי name, of a people from לֵאָה (H3812 which see); compare a further suggestion WeSkizzen iii. 114) — Greek Version of the LXX Λευ(ε)ι(ν); —
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a. Levi, son of Jacob and Leah, as individual, Genesis 29:34; Genesis 34:25, 30; Genesis 35:23; Genesis 49:5 (all J); Genesis 35:23; Genesis 46:11; Exodus 1:2; Exodus 6:16; Exodus 16:16; Numbers 3:17; Numbers 16:1 (all P); 1 Chronicles 21; 1 Chronicles 5:22; 1 Chronicles 6:1; 1 Chronicles 6:4; 1 Chronicles 6:23; 1 Chronicles 6:28; 1 Chronicles 6:32; 1 Chronicles 23:6; Ezra 8:18; so בַּתלֿ׳ [אֶתֿ] Exodus 2:1 (E), Numbers 26:59 (P).
b. as head of a family of descendants, in phrase בֵּית לֵוִי Exodus 2:1 (E), and (with reference to tribe; late) Numbers 17:23, ל׳ בֵּית מִשְׁפַחַת Zechariah 12:13.
c. often בְּנֵי(־)ל׳ Exodus 32:26, 28 (E), Joshua 21:10 (P), בְּנֵי(־)ל׳ with tribal reference Numbers 3:15; Numbers 4:2; Numbers 18:21 (charged with service of tabernacle, and hence to receive tithes; all P); as priests הַכֹּהֲנִים בְּנֵי לֵוִי Deuteronomy 21:5; Deuteronomy 31:9, compare Malachi 3:3, and לֹא הָיוּ מִבְּנֵי ל׳ 1 Kings 12:31; from the בְּנֵי ל׳ the Zadokites are selected as priests Ezekiel 40:46; according to 1 Chronicles 9:18; 1 Chronicles 23:24, 27 בְּנֵי ל׳ are subordinate officials in temple (compare 1 Chronicles 23:28f.), compare 1 Chronicles 24:20; sharply distinguished from priests Ezra 8:15; Nehemiah 12:23 (compare Nehemiah 12:22); so also in later stratum of story of Korah's revolt Numbers 16:7, 8, 10 (P2).
2. as name of tribe, שֵׁבֶט ל׳ Deuteronomy 18:1 (priestly tribe), מַטֵּה ל׳ Numbers 1:49 (in charge of tabernacle), Numbers 3:6; Numbers 18:2 (ministers unto Aaron); לֵוִי alone = (tribe of) Levi Deuteronomy 27:12; Deuteronomy 33:8 (earlier poem), Numbers 26:58 (P), Ezekiel 48:31; Malachi 2:4 (priestly tribe, compare Malachi 2:1), 1 Chronicles 21:6; 1 Chronicles 27:17; מַטֵּה ל׳ =rod of (the tribe of) Levi Numbers 17:18 (P); also (no inheritance, because charged with service of tabernacle) Deuteronomy 10:9.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3879.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

29:34; 29:34; 34:25; 34:30; 35:23; 35:23; 46:11; 49:5

Exodus

1:2; 2:1; 2:1; 6:16; 16:16; 32:26; 32:28

Numbers

1:49; 3:6; 3:15; 3:17; 4:2; 16:1; 16:7; 16:8; 16:10; 18:2; 18:2; 18:4; 18:21; 26:58; 26:59

Deuteronomy

10:9; 18:1; 21:5; 27:12; 31:9; 33:8

Joshua

21:10

1 Kings

12:31

1 Chronicles

5:22; 6:1; 6:4; 6:23; 6:28; 6:32; 9:18; 21; 21:6; 23:6; 23:24; 23:27; 23:28; 24:20; 27:17

Ezra

8:15; 8:18

Nehemiah

12:22; 12:23

Ezekiel

40:46; 48:31

Zechariah

12:13

Malachi

2:1; 2:4; 3:3

H3878

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3878 matches the Hebrew לֵוִי (lēvî),
which occurs 64 times in 61 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 29:34–1Ch 24:20)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:34 - And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25 - But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:30 - And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23 - Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:11 - And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:5 - Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:2 - Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:1 - Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:16 - And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:19 - And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites, in the order of their generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:26 - Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:28 - And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:49 - Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:6 - Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron the priest, to be his helpers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:15 - Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:17 - These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:2 - Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:1 - Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Pallu, the son of Reuben, made themselves ready,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:7 - And put spices on the fire in them before the Lord tomorrow; then the man marked out by the Lord will be holy: you take overmuch on yourselves, you sons of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:8 - And Moses said to Korah, Give ear now, you sons of Levi:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:10 - Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:3 - And let Aaron's name be placed on the rod of Levi: for there is to be one rod for the head of every family.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:8 - Now on the day after, Moses went into the Tent of witness; and he saw that Aaron's rod, the rod of the house of Levi, had put out buds, and was covered with buds and flowers and fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:2 - Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:21 - And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:59

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:59 - Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:8 - At that time the Lord had the tribe of Levi marked out to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, to be before the Lord and to do his work and to give blessings in his name, to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9 - For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1 - The priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of Levi, will have no part or heritage with Israel: their food and their heritage will be the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:5 - Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:12 - These are to take their places on Mount Gerizim for blessing the people when you have gone over Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:9 - Then Moses put all this law in writing, and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, and to all the responsible men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:8 - And of Levi he said, Give your Thummim to Levi and let the Urim be with your loved one, whom you put to the test at Massah, with whom you were angry at the waters of Meribah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:14 - Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no heritage; the offerings of the Lord, the God of Israel, made by fire are his heritage, as he said to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:33 - But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no heritage: the Lord, the God of Israel, is their heritage, as he said to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:10 - These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:31 - And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:1 - These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:1 - The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:16 - The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:38 - The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:43 - The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:47 - The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18 - Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:26 - Of the children of Levi, four thousand, six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:6 - But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:6 - And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:14 - And the sons of Moses, the man of God, were put into the list of the tribe of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:24 - These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:20 - And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.

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