Jump to: ISBE • Easton's • Webster's • Concordance • Thesaurus • Greek • Hebrew • Library • Subtopics • Terms International Standard Bible Encyclopedia LEVYlev'-i. Greek 5056. telos -- an end, a toll ... act or state (termination (literally, figuratively or indefinitely), result (immediate, ultimate or prophetic), purpose); specially, an impost or levy (as paid ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5056.htm - 7k Strong's Hebrew 4371. mekes -- computation, proportion to be paid, tax... 4370, 4371. mekes. 4372 . computation, proportion to be paid, tax. Transliteration: mekes Phonetic Spelling: (meh'-kes) Short Definition: levy. ... /hebrew/4371.htm - 6k 4522. mas -- body of forced laborers, forced service, taskworkers ... 7311. rum -- to be high or exalted, rise 4864. maseth -- an uprising, utterance, burden, portion 5927. alah -- to go up, ascend, climb Library That the Present Public Resolutions, Expressed in the Commission's ... List of Authorities The Secular Clergy In God's Name I Beseech You Let Prayer Nourish Your Soul as Your ... The Transplanting of Congregationalism The Tears of the Penitent. The Gathering Storm First Catechetical Lecture of Our Holy Father Cyril, To Amphilochius the Younger. Ep. Ix. A Strange Battle Easton's Bible Dictionary (1 Kings 4:6, R.V.; 5:13), forced service. The service of tributaries was often thus exacted by kings. Solomon raised a "great levy" of 30,000 men, about two per cent. of the population, to work for him by courses on Lebanon. Adoram (12:18) presided over this forced labour service (Ger. Frohndienst; Fr. corvee). Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of collecting by authority; as, the levy of taxes.2. (n.) A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d. 3. (n.) That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc. 4. (n.) The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution. 5. (v. t.) To raise, as a siege. 6. (v. t.) To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc. 7. (v. t.) To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions. 8. (v. t.) To gather or exact; as, to levy money. 9. (v. t.) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc. 10. (v. t.) To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution. 11. (v. i.) To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods. Thesaurus Levy (19 Occurrences)... Solomon raised a "great levy" of 30,000 men, about two per cent. ... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) The act of collecting by authority; as, the levy of taxes. ... /l/levy.htm - 13k Levy-service (1 Occurrence) Levied (5 Occurrences) Conscripted (4 Occurrences) Laborers (19 Occurrences) Adoniram (4 Occurrences) Ador'am (2 Occurrences) Adoni'ram (2 Occurrences) Rehobo'am (42 Occurrences) Millo (9 Occurrences) Bible Concordance Levy (19 Occurrences)Numbers 31:28 Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the cattle, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks: Numbers 31:37 and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five. Numbers 31:38 The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute was seventy-two. Numbers 31:39 The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one. Numbers 31:40 The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute was thirty-two persons. Numbers 31:41 Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses. 2 Samuel 20:24 and Adoram was over the levy; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; 1 Kings 4:6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy-service. 1 Kings 5:13 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 1 Kings 5:14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy. 1 Kings 9:15 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. 1 Kings 9:21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day. 1 Kings 12:18 And king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the levy; but all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. And king Rehoboam hastened to mount his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. 2 Kings 23:33 Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. 2 Chronicles 8:8 of their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants unto this day. 2 Chronicles 10:18 And king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the levy; but the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. And king Rehoboam hastened to mount his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 24:6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and unto him: 'Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?' 2 Chronicles 24:9 They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness. 2 Chronicles 36:3 The king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. Subtopics Related Terms Links Bible Concordance • Bible Dictionary • Bible Encyclopedia • Topical Bible • Bible Thesuarus |
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