Tithe
מַעֲשֵׂרStrong’s H4643maaser (ma-a-ser)
Appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maaser is the Hebrew word usually translated “tithe of”, “tithe” and “tithes your”. It appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament.
“And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.”
Meaning
- Tithe, tenth parttenth part · tithe, payment of a tenth part
How it's translated
- tithe of 8
- the tithe 6
- tithes your 4
- and tithe of 3
- tenth part of 2
- a tenth 1
- any of tithe his 1
- tithe 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 6
- Nehemiah 5
- Numbers 4
- Leviticus 3
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Ezekiel 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 27:30And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s: it is holy unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 27:31And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
- Leviticus 27:32And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.
- Numbers 18:21And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- Numbers 18:24But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
- Numbers 18:26Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.
Hebrew dictionary
מַעֲשֵׂר maaser · tithe
1) tithe, tenth part 1a) tenth part 1b) tithe, payment of a tenth part
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tithe” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TITHE, noun
The tenth part of any thing; but appropriately, the tenth part of the increase annually arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support. Tithes are personal, predial, or mixed; personal, when accruing from labor, art, trade and navigation; predial, when issuing from the earth, as hay, wood and fruit; and mixed, when accruing from beasts, which are fed from the ground.
All definitions and other forms of “tithe”
TITHE, verb transitive
To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth.
- “When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase” Deuteronomy 26:12“Ye tithe mint and rue” Luke 11:42
TITHE, verb intransitive
To pay tithes.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.