Words the Bible translates as tribute
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 11 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- minḥahמִנְחָהtribute: the payment a weaker nation or subject hands over to a ruler it is forced to serve.
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- a gift presented to someone of higher standing to win favor, show respect, or smooth a relationship.
- an offering presented to God; most often the grain offering of flour, oil, and incense given alongside the animal sacrifices.
- telosτέλοςthe point a thing arrives at: where it stops, what it comes to, or the goal it was aiming for
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- a tax or customs duty: a payment owed to a governing authority
- massaמַשָּׂאa burden: a load that is lifted and carried, whether goods on an animal's back or a weight laid on a person.
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- an oracle: a weighty pronouncement from God delivered through a prophet, most often a sentence of doom against a nation.
- the carrying of song: a term for the performance of music in worship, used of the Levite who directed it.
- phorosφόροςtribute: the tax owed to a ruling power by the people under it, charged on persons and land rather than on goods in transit
- masמַסforced labor: the compulsory, unpaid work a ruling power conscripts from a subject population, and the work gangs that carry it out.
- masetמַשְׂאֵתsomething lifted up or borne: a raised signal, a portion or gift carried to someone, or a payment rendered to an authority
- mekhesמֶכֶסtributenot studied yet
- kēnsosκῆνσοςthe Roman tax: money a subject people owed the emperor, charged on persons and property rather than on goods in transit
- middahמִנְדָּהtributenot studied yet
- beloבְּלוֹtributenot studied yet
- shilohשִׁילֹה`tribute`not studied yet
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