cohen

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The man was worried, because he was a cohen, and the child, if a boy, wouldn't be a cohen, so he wouldn't go up with his father to bless the congregation, & everyone would know.

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  1. Among the Jews, a priest. Jews bearing this name or one of its numerous variants (such as Cohn, Cuhen, Cahn, Coen, Coon, Kuhn, Cowen, Cowan, etc.) are assumed to be descendants from the high priest Aaron. In the synagogue service the congregation is divided into three classes, as follows: (1) Cohanim, or priests, descendants of Aaron; (2) Leviim, or Levites, descendants of the patriarch Levi; (3) Israelim, or Israelites. The last are, of course, the most numerous. Many of the first category (the Cohanim) have secular names, to which, when signed in Hebrew, they affix the letters C. Z., an abbreviation of cohen zedek, ‘righteous priest.’

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