Bible Names

Kohath: meaning of the name

Kohath means “congregation; wrinkle; bluntness.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Kohath in Hebrew and Greek

קְהָת H6955

Qᵉhâth (keh-hawth') — Kehath, an Israelite

from an unused root meaning to ally oneself; allied;

Who named Kohath in the Bible

Kohath in Scripture

“Kohath” appears in 29 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 46:11

    And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

  • Exodus 6:16

    And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.

  • Exodus 6:18

    And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.

  • Numbers 3:17

    And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

  • Numbers 3:19

    And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

  • Numbers 3:27

    And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.

  • Numbers 3:29

    The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.

  • Numbers 4:2

    Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,