מַעֲשֵׂר
maʻăsêr · H4643 · Hebrew · 32 occurrences
Meanings
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one tenth
State in which an entity is one out of ten equal parts
ExamplesGenesis 14:20 And blessed be God Most High, Who has handed over your enemies to you.” And he gave him a tenth of everything.
Ezekiel 45:11 “The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; their standard shall be according to the homer.
Ezekiel 45:14 and the prescribed portion of oil (namely, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths are a homer);
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tithe
One tenth of one's crops or domestic animals, to be sacrificed to a deity
ExamplesLeviticus 27:30 ‘Now all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’S; it is holy to the LORD.
Leviticus 27:31 ‘If, therefore, someone should ever want to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it a fifth of it.
Leviticus 27:32 ‘For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the LORD.
How it’s used In 9 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
21 occurrences in 16 groups
- דָּגָןgrain 4
- כֶםyour 4
- Other words · 14 groups that occur once or twice (19) 19
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- לָקַחto take, to receive 1
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- רוּםto be high, to raise, to lift up 1
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- כֹּלall, every, whole 1
- מִצְוָהcommandment, command 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is done to itIt is the object
19 occurrences in 9 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 7
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 4
- Other words · 7 groups that occur once or twice (8) 8
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חֹקstatute, decree, portion 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom 5
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מַעֲשֵׂרtithe, tenth 1
- שָׁנֶהyear 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
- δεκάτη dekátē · G1181 · a tenth, i.e. as a percentage or tithe
- Greek δεκάτη (dekátē, G1181) is the direct lexical equivalent of Hebrew מַעֲשֵׂר (maʻăsêr, H4643), both denoting a tenth part or tithe in cultic and economic contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4643. maaser or maasar or maasrah מַעֲשֵׂר noun masculineNum 18:28 tenth part, tithe; —…
or maasar or maasrah מַעֲשֵׂר noun masculineNum 18:28 tenth part, tithe; — absolute ׳מ Num 18:26 +; construct מַעְשַׂר Lev 27:30 +, מַעֲשַׂר Neh 10:39 (before הַמַּעֲשֵׂר); suffix מַעַשְׂרוֺ Lev 27:31; plural absolute מַעַשְׂרוֺת Neh 12:44; suffix מַעְשְׂרֹתֵידֶם Amo 4:4 Amo 4:3t.; —
1 tenth part of homer Eze 45:11, of bath Eze 45:14.
2 tithe, payment of tenth part: with מִן of thing Gen 14:20; Num 18:26; usually construct before noun of thing Deu 12:17; Deu 14:23, Deu 14:28; Deu 26:12; Lev 27:30, Lev 27:32; 2Ch 31:5-6, (twice in verse); Neh 10:38; Neh 10:39; Neh 13:5, Neh 13:12; absolute Num 18:21, Num 18:26 (twice in verse); Mal 3:8, Mal 3:10; 2Ch 31:12; Neh 10:39; Neh 12:44; הַמּ ׳שְׁנַת Deu 26:12 the year of the tithe (i.e. of tithing); with Genitive person paying tithe Amo 4:4; Deu 12:6, Deu 12:11; Lev 27:31; Num 18:24, Num 18:28. — compare RSSem.i. 228 ff.; 2nd ed. 245 ff.; Proph. Lect. ii. N. NowArchaeology i. 313; ii. 257 f. BenzArchaeology 309, 460 f. DrDt. 168 ff.
I. עָשׁ Job 9:9 probably error for עישׁ, see עַ֫יִשׁ p. 747.
II. עָשׁ see עשׁשׁ. p. 799.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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