Words the Bible translates as tax
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- telosτέλοςa tax or customs duty: a payment owed to a governing authority
+1 more meaning
- the point a thing arrives at: where it stops, what it comes to, or the goal it was aiming for
- phorosφόροςtribute: the tax owed to a ruling power by the people under it, charged on persons and land rather than on goods in transit
- kēnsosκῆνσοςthe Roman tax: money a subject people owed the emperor, charged on persons and property rather than on goods in transit
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