levite in English
The Kohanim and Levites served in the Temple, and three times a year - during the holidays of Passover, Sukkot and Shavuot - all Jews were commanded to come to Jerusalem and visit the Temple.
Use "levite" in a sentence
1. Note where various non-Levite tribes settled.
2. The singers at the temple were Levite males.
3. 12 What can you learn from that Levite?
4. A Levite descendant of Gershon through Ladan; a “headman.”
5. He was not a Hebrew, an Israelite or a Levite.
6. Son of Joah; a Levite of the family of Gershom. —1Ch 6:19-21.
7. No Levite high priest could anoint Jesus to such a celestial government.
8. You can see the priest and the Levite in the distance going down the road.
9. As a hind, or female deer, in a dry region longs for water, the Levite longed for Jehovah.
10. (Genesis 39:9) The Levite Samuel remembered his Creator not only in his childhood but throughout his life.
11. The Bible account about a Levite in the period of the judges in Israel illustrates this.
12. A Levite, possibly of the singers, selected to reside in Jerusalem under Nehemiah. —Ne 11:17, 18.
13. (Romans 9:16; Revelation 20:6) Jehovah executed the Levite Korah for presumptuously seeking the Aaronic priesthood.
14. The Maccabean kingdom of Levite rulers (104-63 and 40-37 B.C.E.) did not alter that fact.
15. A Levite of the family of Korahites; a son of Shemaiah and a grandson of Obed-edom.
16. Why could no one rightly justify the indifference of the priest and the Levite in the illustration involving the neighborly Samaritan?
17. Likewise, a Levite also, when he got down to the place and saw him, went by on the opposite side.
18. The composer of the psalm was likely a descendant of the Levite Asaph, a prominent musician during the reign of King David.
19. A priest and a Levite ignored a half-dead fellow Jew, yet a Samaritan went out of his way to help him.
20. (Revelation 16:15) This may allude to Levite temple guards who were stripped of their garments and publicly disgraced if they were found sleeping during their guard duty.
21. The first aliyah of any day's reading is reserved for a kohein, the second for a Levite, and priority for subsequent Aliyoth are given to people celebrating major life …
22. ‘The first aliyah of any day's reading is customarily reserved for a kohein, the second for a Levite, and priority for subsequent Aliyoth is given to people celebrating major life events, such as …
23. They turn a blind eye to the pain of other people, as did the priest and the Levite in Jesus Christ’s illustration about a man who was assaulted, robbed, and left half dead by the roadside.
24. 14 Rejoice during your festival,+ you and your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, the Levite, the foreign resident, the fatherless child, and the widow, who are inside your cities.
25. Levite, member of a group of clans of religious functionaries in ancient Israel who apparently were given a special religious status, Conjecturally for slaughtering idolaters of the golden calf during the time of Moses (Ex
26. Levite, member of a group of clans of religious functionaries in ancient Israel who apparently were given a special religious status, Conjecturally for slaughtering idolaters of the golden calf during the time of Moses (Ex
27. (Ge 29:31, 32; 30:22-24) Now with these adjustments the names of the 12 (non-Levite) tribes of Israel were Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Ephraim, Manasseh, Benjamin, Dan, Asher, Gad, and Naphtali. —Nu 1:4-15.
28. A Levite musician of the second division who acted as one of the directors in playing the harp at the time the sacred Ark was transferred from the house of Obed-edom to Jerusalem. —1Ch 15:17, 18, 21.
29. + 36 So Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barʹna·bas+ (which means, when translated, “Son of Comfort”), a Levite, a native of Cyʹprus, 37 owned a piece of land, and he sold it and brought the money and deposited it at the feet of the apostles.
30. Ba'-ni (Bani, "posterity"): (1) A Gadite, one of David's mighty men (2 Samuel 23:36).(2) A Levite whose son was appointed for service in the tabernacle at David's time (1 Chronicles 6:46).(3) A Judahite whose son lived in Jerusalem after the captivity (1 Chronicles 9:4).(4) The descendants of Bani (called Binnui, Nehemiah 7:15) returned with Zerubbabel and had taken "strange wives" ().
31. Ba'-ni (Bani, "posterity"): (1) A Gadite, one of David's mighty men (2 Samuel 23:36).(2) A Levite whose son was appointed for service in the tabernacle at David's time (1 Chronicles 6:46).(3) A Judahite whose son lived in Jerusalem after the captivity (1 Chronicles 9:4).(4) The descendants of Bani (called Binnui, Nehemiah 7:15) returned with Zerubbabel and had taken "strange wives" ().