Tribute
בְּלוֹStrong’s H1093belo (be-lo)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Belo is the Aramaic word usually translated “tax”. It appears in 3 verses 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
- Tribute
How it's translated
- tax 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 4:20There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.
- Ezra 7:24Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.
Aramaic dictionary
בְּלוֹ belo · tribute
tribute
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tribute” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TRIB'UTE, noun
[Latin tributum, from tribuo, to give, bestow or divide.]
- An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one prince or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty.
- A personal contribution; as a tribute of respect.
- Something given or contributed.
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.