Numbers 31:28
And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
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Levy
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1 Kings 9:21
Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
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מַס
maç · mas
4 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor
Strong's KJV usage: discomfited, levy, task(-master), tribute(-tary).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 5:13Strong's last: 1 Kings 9:15
Open full H4522 profile →עָלָה
ʻâlâh · aw-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form894 total Strong's occurrences
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
Strong's KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, × mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
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Strong's first: 1 Kings 9:21Strong's last: 1 Kings 9:21
Open full H5927 profile →רוּם
rûwm · room
1 times translated as this KJV form191 total Strong's occurrences
to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, (× a-) loud, mount up, offer (up), presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.
Strong's first: Numbers 31:28Strong's last: Numbers 31:28
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H7311
And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
H4522
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
H4522
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
H4522
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.
H4522
And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
H5927
Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
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levy
LEV'Y, verb transitive [Latin levo; Eng. to lift.]
1. To raise; to collect. To levy troops, is to enlist or to order men into public service. To levy an army, is to collect troops and form an army by enrollment, conscription or other means.
2. To raise; to collect by assessment; as, to levy taxes, toll tribute, or contributions.
To levy war, is to raise or begin war; to take arms for attack; to attack.
To levy a fine, to commence and carry on a suit for assuring the title to lands or tenements.
LEV'Y, noun
1. The act of collecting men for military, or other public service, as by enlistment, enrollment or other means. 1 Kings 9:15.
2. Troops collected; an army raised. 1 Kings 5:13.
3. The act of collecting money for public use by tax or other imposition.
4. War raised. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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