BDB3930

כהן (√ of following; meaning dubious, see Dr^{2Sam 8:18}; Arabic verb is divine, and (Qor 52:29) is a seer, the organ (mostly) of a jinn, rarely of a god: the and the כֹּהֵן must have been originally identical (both alike being guardians of an oracle, at a sanctuary); but their functions diverged: the gradually lost his connection with the sanctuary, and sank to be a mere diviner; the כהן acquired fuller sacrificial functions: see RS^{Enc. Brit. ed. 9, xix. 727}; We^{Skizzen iii. 130 ff.}, 167; Now^{Archaeology ii. 89 f.}; Phoenician כהן is priest, כהנת priestess).

The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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