Revenue
אַפְּתֹםStrong’s H0674apptom (ap-p-tom)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Apptom is the Aramaic word usually translated “certainly”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.”
Meaning
- Treasury, treasuries
- (CLBL) revenue
How it's translated
- and certainly 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
אַפְּתֹם apptom · revenue
1) treasury, treasuries 2) (CLBL) revenue
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “revenue” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REV'ENUE, noun
[Latin revenio; re and venio, to come.]
- In a general sense, the annual rents, profits, interest or issues of any species of property, real or personal, belonging to an individual or to the public.
- The annual produce of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc. which a nation or state collects and receives into the treasury for public use.
- Return; reward; as a rich revenue of praise.
- A fleshy lump on the head of a deer.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.