Word

ἀποδεκατόω

apodekatóō · G586 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

to give a tenth, to tithe

To give a tenth of one’s income

Examples
Matthew 23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the Law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.
Luke 11:42 “But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every kind of garden herb, and yet you ignore justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.
Luke 18:12 ‘I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’
to collect tithes, to exact tithes from

To cause someone to pay a tenth

Examples
Hebrews 7:5 And those indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have a commandment in the Law to collect a tenth from the people, that is, from their countrymen, although they are descended from Abraham.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated: you (more than one) 2
Not stated: I 1
Not stated (infinitive) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 7 groups

ἡδύοσμονmint 2
κτάομαιto get 1
κύμινονcumin 1
λαόςpeople 1
λάχανονgarden plant 1
πήγανονrue 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

κατάaccording to, against, down+ νόμοςlaw, the Law 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

עָשַׂר ʻâsar · H6237 · to take the tenth, to receive tithes, to give the tenth: Hebrew עָשַׂר denotes the act of tithing (giving or taking a tenth) in the Old Testament cultic and legal contexts, directly rendering the Greek ἀποδεκατόω which encodes the same tithing action in New Testament passages discussing Jewish religious practice or Jesus's teaching about the law.

Semantic domains 2 entries

To give a tenth, to tithe57.114: In Luke 18:12, the Pharisee in Jesus' parable boasts, “I pay tithes of (apodekatõ) all that I get,” describing his own act of giving a tenth of his income.
To collect tithes, to exact tithes from57.115: In Hebrews 7:5, the writer notes that the Levitical priests “have a commandment in the Law to collect a tenth (apodekatoũn) from the people, that is, from their countrymen,” describing the priests' own right to receive tithes from others rather than to pay them.

Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

δέκα déka · G1176 · ten · 27×δεκατέσσαρες dekatéssares · G1180 · fourteen · 5×ἀποδεκατόωapodekatóō · G586δεκάτη dekátē · G1181 · a tenth, i.e. as a percentage or tithe · 4×δεκαπέντε dekapénte · G1178 · fifteen · 3×Δεκάπολις Dekápolis · G1179 · the ten-city region; the Decapolis, a district in Syria · 3×δέκατος dékatos · G1182 · tenth, tenth part · 3×δεκατόω dekatóō · G1183 · to collect tithes, to exact tithes from, to give a tenth · 2×δεκαδύο dekadýo · G1177 · two and ten, i.e. twelve · 0×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Lk 18:12, for ἀποδεκατόω which see; (cf. WHs Appendix, p. 171). G586 — ἀποδεκατόω ,…

Lk 18:12, for ἀποδεκατόω which see; (cf. WHs Appendix, p. 171).
G586 — ἀποδεκατόω
, ἀποδεκατῶ, infinitive present ἀποδεκατοιν, Heb 7:5 T Tr WH (cf. Delitzsch at the passage; Buttmann, 44 (38); (Tdf.s note at the passage; WH. Introductory § 410)); (δεκατόω which see); a Biblical and ecclesiastical word; the Sept. for עָשַׂר; to tithe i. e.
1. with the accusative of the thing, to give, pay, a tenth of anything: Mt 23:23; Lk 11:42; Lk 18:12 where T WH, after manuscripts א* B only, have adopted ἀποδεκατεύω, for which the simple δεκατεύω is more common in Greek writings; (Gen 28:22; Deut 14:21 (22)).
2. τινα, to exact, receive, a tenth from anyone: Heb 7:5; (1 Sam 8:15, 1 Sam 8:17). (B. D. under the word .)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0