1) one of the tribe of Levi
2) in a narrower sense those were called Levites who, not being of the family of Aaron, for whom alone the priesthood was reserved, served as assistants to 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 the sacred hymns in the temple, and to do many other things.
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
Citing in TDNT: 4:239, 530
G3019
From G3017; a Levite, that is, descendant of Levi: - Levite.
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University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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