ka.han denotes performing priestly service, whether in appointment for that work or in its exercise before the LORD.

The attested use concerns performing priestly service: Aaron, his sons, and their successors are consecrated, clothed, anointed, or identified for service before the LORD, while other verses describe that service as exercised or withheld. The same use can stand in a comparison involving a bridegroom's adornment, though the translation there does not isolate the term's contribution clearly.

1. Performing priestly service · dominant

   Infinitive forms regularly occur in clauses concerning preparation for priestly work: in Exodus 28:1 the APB renders the purpose of bringing Aaron and his sons near as “so that he may minister to me,” and Exodus 28:41 places the service after clothing, anointing, filling their hands, and consecrating them. Sequential imperfect forms describe the work being carried out by successors: in Deuteronomy 10:6 Eleazar serves in Aaron's place, and in Numbers 3:4 Eleazar and Ithamar minister before their father. Negative statements in 2 Chronicles 11:14 and Ezekiel 44:13 show people rejected from, or barred from, that priestly service.

   Exodus 28:1Exodus 28:41Deuteronomy 10:6Numbers 3:42 Chronicles 11:14Ezekiel 44:13

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the clause with “minister,” “serve,” or “serve as priests,” especially where persons are consecrated or succeed another in service. In Isaiah 61:10 it renders the wider comparison as a bridegroom adorning himself, so the translation does not clearly isolate this term there.