Definition

{one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)}

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H3548 (כֹּהֵן)

Word family

• כֹּהֵן kôhên

How the KJV renders it

• priest

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.