STRONGS NUMBER G3019

Original Word: Λευΐτης
Transliteration: 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 LeviLevite.

From Leui; a Levite, i.e. Descendant of Levi -- Levite.

see GREEK Leui

STRONGS NT 3019: Λευίτης

Λευίτης (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 ; Edersheim, The Temple, 2nd edition, p. 63ff.)