• Kohen (Hebrew: כֹּהֵן‎, kōhēn, [koˈ(h)en], "priest", pl. כֹּהֲנִים‎, kōhănīm, [koˈ(h)anim], "priests") is the Hebrew word for "priest", used in reference...
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  • Cohen (redirect from Kohen (disambiguation))
    Ancient/Modern Hebrew: Kohen, HaKohen, ben-Kohen, bar-Kohen, Koheni, Kahana, Kohanim, Kohen-Tzedek/Kohen-Tzadik (Katz) Hungarian: Kohn, Kohen, Korn, Korenfeld...
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  • A bat-kohen or bat kohen (Hebrew: בת כהן) is the daughter of a kohen (Jewish priest), who holds a special status in the Hebrew Bible and rabbinical texts...
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    In Judaism, the High Priest of Israel (Hebrew: כהן גדול, romanized: Kohen Gadol, lit. 'great priest'; Aramaic: Kahana Rabba) was the head of the Israelite...
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  • The prohibition of Kohen defilement to the dead is the commandment to a Jewish priest (kohen) not to come in direct contact with, or be in the same enclosed...
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  • Azra "Akilah" Kohen (born 1979) is a Turkish record-breaking author. After releasing her first novel, Fi, under the name Akilah, she started to release...
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  • family name Azulai is an acronym of the biblical restriction on whom a Kohen may marry: אשה זנה וחללה לא יקחו (Leviticus, 21:7) and, thus, indicating...
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  • blind before the surgeries. Crescas was a leader of Aragon's Jewish community. "CRESCAS, ABIATHARIBN, HA-KOHEN". Jewish Encyclopedia. v t e v t e v t e...
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    with money. The redemption is attained by paying five silver coins to a kohen (a patrilineal descendant of the priestly family of Aaron), on behalf of...
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  • Rabbi Bension Kohen or haKohen (Hebrew: בֶּנְצִיּוֹן הַכֹּהֵן; born in Djerba, Tunisia, died 1999 in Jerusalem) was a writer of literature on Hebrew grammar...
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