Tribute
מַשְׂאֵתStrong’s H4864maset (mas-et)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maset is the Hebrew word usually translated “tax of”, “tribute” and “portions”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.”
Meaning
- Uprising, utterance, burden, portion, upliftingthat which rises, uprising, uplifting, signal, rising · utterance, oracle · burden · portion, present, largesse, gift, contribution, offering, tribute
How it's translated
- tax of 2
- tribute 2
- portions 1
- portion of 1
- more than portions of 1
- rising of 1
- and the rising 1
- gift of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Genesis 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Esther 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 20:38Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
- Judges 20:40But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
- 2 Samuel 11:8And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.
- 2 Chronicles 24:6And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
- 2 Chronicles 24:9And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
- Esther 2:18Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.
Hebrew dictionary
מַשְׂאֵת maset · tribute
1) uprising, utterance, burden, portion, uplifting 1a) that which rises, uprising, uplifting, signal, rising 1b) utterance, oracle 1c) burden 1d) portion, present, largesse, gift, contribution, offering, 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.