בְּלוֹ
bᵉlôw · H1093 · Aramaic · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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tribute
Exact meaning unsure; probably: an amount of money that is to be paid to a ruler in return for certain rights or privileges
ExamplesEzra 4:13 “Now let it be known to the king, that if that city is rebuilt and the walls are finished, they will not pay tribute, custom tax, or toll, and it will be detrimental to the revenue of the kings.
Ezra 4:20 that mighty kings have ruled over Jerusalem, governing all the provinces beyond the Euphrates River, and that tribute, custom tax, and toll were paid to them.
Ezra 7:24 “We also inform you that it is not allowed to impose tax, tribute, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- מַס maç · H4522 · conscripted laborers, tribute
- מַס denotes tribute or levy imposed by a ruler, often forced labor or tax service, closely synonymous with בְּלוֹ in contexts of tributary obligations.
- מִנְחָה minchâh · H4503 · gift, tribute, offering
- מִנְחָה can denote a tribute or present given to a superior authority, though it more commonly refers to offerings; it overlaps with בְּלוֹ in diplomatic/tributary contexts.
In the other Testament 2 words
- φόρος phóros · G5411 · tribute tax
- φόρος is the standard Greek term for tribute or tax imposed by an authority, directly equivalent to the Hebrew בְּלוֹ in meaning and function.
- κῆνσος kēnsos · G2778 · tax, poll tax
- κῆνσος (Latin loanword census) refers to poll-tax or tribute, particularly the Roman head-tax, and serves as a translation equivalent for tribute terminology.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Objects001
- Ezra 4:13 has the letter to King Artaxerxes warn, “if that city is rebuilt and the walls are finished, they will not pay tribute, custom tax, or toll, and it will be detrimental to the revenue of the kings.”
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1093. belo בְּלוֺ noun [masculine] tribute (loan-word from Assyrian biltu, √ ובל,…
בְּלוֺ noun [masculine] tribute (loan-word from Assyrian biltu, √ ובל, according to most modern; but Scheft80 compare Old Iranian bali, tribute, Old Persian * bari, payment in kind, so (in Babylonian bara) MeyG.d.Altert.iii.88 ScheftMGWJ 47 (1903), 316 Buhl14'vielleicht'); — absolute ׳ב וַהֲלָח מִנְדְּה Ezr 4:13, Ezr 4:20; Ezr 7:24.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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