Strong's Definition
a primitive root, apparently meaning to mediate in religious services; but used only as denominative from 3548; to officiate as a priest; figuratively, to put on regalia
KJV Usage: deck, be (do the office of a, execute the, minister in the) priest('s office)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
כָּהַן (ka.han) — to minister. 1) to act as a priest, minister in a priest's office 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to minister as a priest, serve as a priest 1a2) to be or become a priest 1a3) to play the priest
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · כֹּהֵן · כְּהֻנָּה
Role | verb pi | ≈ מלא · קדשׁ
to act as priest, to serve as priest = state in which humans have been ordained and consecrated to function as a priest
EXO 28:1 · EXO 28:3 · EXO 28:4 · EXO 28:41 · EXO 29:1 · EXO 29:44 · EXO 30:30 · EXO 31:10 · EXO 35:19 · EXO 39:41 · EXO 40:13 · EXO 40:15 · LEV 7:35 · LEV 16:32 · NUM 3:3 · NUM 3:4 · DEU 10:6 · 1CH 5:36 · 1CH 24:2 · 2CH 11:14 · EZK 44:13 · HOS 4:6
Priests | verb pi
to act like a priest meaning unsure; possibly: = action by which humans mimick a priest by dressing up in a certain way
1 ISA 61:10 NIV ESV | BHS יכין RSV NRSV "decks himself" NJPS "adorned" GNT "dressed" | REB omit
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[כָּהַן] vb. only Pi. denom. act as priest base