Levi
Of the tribe of Simeon [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the
tribe of Levi [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of
Issachar [were] sealed twelve thousand....
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And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy
father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto
thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee
[shall minister] before the tabernacle of witness....
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Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless
the LORD....
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Levi/Levy, Standard Levy Tiberian Lēwî ; "joining") was,
according to the Book of Genesis, the third son of Jacob and
Leah, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the
levites); however some Biblical scholars view this as
postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of
the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israel...
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le'-vi (Lewi; Leui; Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in
Greek Leuei):
(1) The 3rd son of Jacob by Leah. See separate article.
(2) (3) Two ancestors of Jesus in Luke's genealogy (Lk
3:24,29).
(4) The apostle Matthew.
See MATTHEW....
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-Son of Jacob
Ge 29:34; 35:23; 1Ch 2:1
-Avenges the seduction of Dinah
Ge 34; 49:5-7
-Jacob's prophecy regarding
Ge 49:5-7
-His age at death
Ex 6:16
-(Descendants of, made the ministers of religion)
-See LEVITES...
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(joined).
1. The name of the third son of Jacob by his wife
Leah. (B.C. about 1753.) The name, derived from lavah, "to
adhere," gave utterance to the hope of the mother that the
affections of her husband, which had hitherto rested on the
favored Rachel, would at last be drawn to her: "This time will
my husband be joined unto me, because I hav...
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adhesion. (1.) The third son of Jacob by Leah. The origin of
the
name is found in Leah's words (Gen. 29:34), "This time
will my
husband be joined [Heb. yillaveh] unto me." He is
mentioned as
taking a prominent part in avenging his sister Dinah
(Gen.
34:25-31). He and his three sons went down with Jacob
(46:11)
into Egypt, where he died at...
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1. Jacob's third son by Leah, ("joined"), expressing her
trust; "now will my husband be joined unto me, because I have
borne him three sons" (Genesis 29:34). Levi joined Simeon in
avenging their own full sister Dinah's wrong by treacherously
slaying the Shechemites, and so incurred Jacob's curse. They
made circumcision, which God gave as a ple...
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