Toll
הֲלָךְStrong’s H1983halakh (ha-lakh)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Halakh is the Aramaic word usually translated “toll”. 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
- Toll, custom duty, tribute
How it's translated
- and toll 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
הֲלָךְ halakh · toll
toll, custom duty, tribute Aramaic of ha.lakh (הָלַךְ ": walk" H1980)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “toll” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TOLL, noun
[Gr. toll custom, and end, exit, from cutting off; Eng. dole; diolam, to sell, to exchange, to pay toll This is from the root of deal. See Deal.]
- A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market or the like.
- A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
- A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
All definitions and other forms of “toll”
TOLL, verb intransitive
To pay toll or tallage.
- To take toll as by a miller.
TOLL, verb intransitive
To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.
TOLL, verb transitive
[supra.]
To cause a bell to sound with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated, as for summoning public bodies or religious congregations to their meetings, or for announcing the death of a person, or to give solemnity to a funeral. Tolling is a different thing from ringing.
TOLL, verb transitive
[Latin tollo.]
To take away; to vacate; to annul; a law term.
- To draw. [See Tole.]
TOLL, noun
A particular sounding of a bell.
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.