Lexical Summary Leuitēs: a Levite, a descendant of Levi Original Word: ΛευΐτηςTransliteration: Leuitēs Phonetic Spelling: (lyoo-ee'-tace) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a Levite, a descendant of Levi Meaning: Levite -- a Levite, a descendant of Levi Strong's Concordance Levite. From Leui; a Levite, i.e. Descendant of Levi -- Levite. see GREEK Leui Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3019: ΛευίτηςΛευίτης (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 |
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