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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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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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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Natalia Kohen (1919–2022) was an Argentine artist and writer. She was born in Mendoza and studied in Buenos Aires. Over a very long career, she held numerous...
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Shaul HaKohen Kohen (born in Djerba, Tunisia – died 1848, also in Djerba) was a Mizrahi Jewish rabbi, and writer of multiple rabbinic literary works....
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High Priest of Israel (redirect from Kohen ha-Gadol)
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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Pidyon haben (section Bat Kohen)
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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Mordechai HaKohen of Safed (1523–1598) was a scholar and kabbalist who flourished in the second half of the sixteenth century in Safed. He was a pupil...
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Kohen (1928 – 18 October 2021) was a Turkish journalist and columnist. He wrote regular columns about foreign policy for Milliyet since 1954. Kohen was...
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Abiathar Crescas (redirect from Abiathar ibn Crescas ha-Kohen)
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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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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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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Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (redirect from Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk)
early 20th century. He was a kohen, and is therefore often referred to as Meir Simcha ha-Kohen ("Meir Simcha the Kohen"). He is known for his writings...
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Shabbatai ben Meir HaKohen (Hebrew: שבתי בן מאיר הכהן; 1621–1662) was a noted 17th century talmudist and halakhist. He became known as the Shakh (Hebrew:...
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Priestly sash (redirect from Avnet (kohen))
vestments, the ends of the Avnet are shown in red hanging at his feet. The kohen on one knee beside him is wearing the avnet wound around his waist....
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Jacob Cohen (redirect from Jacob Kohen)
to: Jack Cohen (businessman) (1898–1979), supermarket founder born Jacob Kohen Jacob Cohen (footballer) (born 1956), former Israeli international association...
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Abraham Cohen Pimentel (redirect from Minchat kohen)
letter of approbation for Sabbatai Zevi. He was the author of the Minchat Kohen, published in 1668. bibliopolis.com[permanent dead link] The Sabbatean Movement...
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Tsadoq (Hebrew: צָדוֹק הַכֹּהֵן, romanized: Ṣādōq ha-Kōhēn; lit. 'righteous, justified'), was a Kohen (priest), biblically recorded to be a descendant from...
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Abraham Kalisker (redirect from Abraham HaKohen Kalisker)
Abraham HaKohen of Kalisk (1741–1810) was a prominent Chassidic rabbi of the 3rd generation of Chassidic leaders. He was a disciple of Dov Ber of Mezeritch...
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Y-chromosomal Aaron (redirect from Kohen gene)
ancestor of the patrilineal Jewish priestly caste known as Kohanim (singular "Kohen", also spelled "Cohen"). According to the traditional understanding of the...
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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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Marcelo Gustavo Kohen (born August 11, 1957) is an Argentine international lawyer and academic specialised in the areas of international legal theory...
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Yisrael Meir Kagan (redirect from Yisroel Meir HaKohen)
Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen Kagan (January 26, 1838 – September 15, 1933) was an influential Lithuanian Jewish rabbi, Halakhist, posek, and ethicist whose works...
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Gershom ben Solomon Kohen (died c. 1544) (also known as Gershon ben Solomon Cohen and Gershom Kohen Katz) was among the first printers of Hebrew books...
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Akiva ben Menaḥem ha-Kohen of Ofen (died 1496) was a Jewish scholar who lived in Hungary and Bohemia in the second half of the fifteenth century. He is...
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Isaac ben Judah Rapoport HaKohen (יצחק רפפורט הכהן) was an 18th-century rabbi who lived in Ottoman Empire; born and died at Jerusalem, a pupil of rabbi...
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Eliezer Zweifel (redirect from Lazar Eliezer Zebi b. David ha-Kohen Zweifel)
Eliezer Zweifel (1815–1888) (Hebrew: אליעזר צבי צְוַויפֶל) was a Russian-Jewish writer who was associated with the Jewish Enlightenment movement (haskalah)...
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The Kohen is given the honor to initiate grace after the meal provided three adult male Jews have dined together. The Kohen may allow a non-Kohen to initiate...
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Joshua Falk (redirect from Joshua Falk ha-Kohen)
Alexander Ha-Kohen, jewishencyclopedia.com History of Jewish family Names, jewishgen.org Meir Wunder, Yehoshu‘a ben Aleksander ha-Kohen, in The YIVO Encyclopedia...
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