מַעֲשֵׂרmaʻăsêr
tenth part, tithe
Pronunciation: mah-as-ayr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4643
Meanings
1. tenth part (Ezekiel 45:11; Ezekiel 45:14)
2. tithe, payment of tenth part (Genesis 14:20; Numbers 18:26; Deuteronomy 12:17)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 32 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 14:20 And blessed be God Most High, who has defeated your enemies for you.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the goods he had recovered.
- Leviticus 27:30 “One-tenth of the produce of the land, whether grain from the fields or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord and must be set apart to him as holy.
- Leviticus 27:31 If you want to buy back the Lord’s tenth of the grain or fruit, you must pay its value, plus 20 percent.
- Leviticus 27:32 Count off every tenth animal from your herds and flocks and set them apart for the Lord as holy.
- Numbers 18:21 As for the tribe of Levi, your relatives, I will compensate them for their service in the Tabernacle. Instead of an allotment of land, I will give them the tithes from the entire land of Israel.
- Numbers 18:24 because I have given them the Israelites’ tithes, which have been presented as sacred offerings to the Lord. This will be the Levites’ share. That is why I said they would receive no allotment of land among the Israelites.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).