asar (to tithe) · Rightly

Meaning

To tithe, take the tenth part of, give a tithe, take a tithe(Qal) to tithe · (Piel) to give a tithe · (Hiphil) to take a tithe

How it's translated

fully 2
he will take a tenth 2
i will tithe it 1
you will tithe 1
to tithe 1
the collect tithes 1
when collect tithes 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Deuteronomy 2
1 Samuel 2
Nehemiah 2
Genesis 1

4 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Deuteronomy 14:22Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
Deuteronomy 26:12When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
1 Samuel 8:15And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
1 Samuel 8:17He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
Nehemiah 10:37And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
Nehemiah 10:38And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.

Hebrew dictionary

עָשַׂר asar · to tithe

1) to tithe, take the tenth part of, give a tithe, take a tithe 1a) (Qal) to tithe 1b) (Piel) to give a tithe 1c) (Hiphil) to take a tithe

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.