Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4371
מֶכֶס
mekesmeh'-kes
tribute
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mekeç
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4371is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4371
an assessment (as based upon a census)
The King James renders it: tribute.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mekes is rendered "tribute". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Six of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 31:28Set aside a tribute for the LORD from what belongs to the soldiers who went into battle: one out of every five hundred, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, or sheep.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Set aside a tribute for the LORD from what belongs to the soldiers who went into battle: one out of every five hundred, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, or sheep.
Numbers 31:28מֶ֜כֶס
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's six uses are in Numbers.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and tax their3
- a tax1
- tax of1
- the tax1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מֶכֶר | meker | merchandise | Uses3 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּמִכְסָ֥ם2
- הַמֶּ֥כֶס1
- וּמִכְסָם֙1
- מֶ֜כֶס1
- מֶ֙כֶס֙1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural3HC/Ncmsc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Numbers
six uses
Set aside a tribute for the LORD from what belongs to the soldiers who went into battle: one out of every five hundred, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, or sheep.
- מֶ֜כֶסmekhesnoun · masculine singulartagged: a tax
337,500 sheep, including a tribute to the LORD of 675,
- הַמֶּ֥כֶסhamekhesthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the tax
36,000 cattle, including a tribute to the LORD of 72,
- וּמִכְסָ֥םumikhsamconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and tax their
30,500 donkeys, including a tribute to the LORD of 61,
- וּמִכְסָ֥םumikhsamconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and tax their
and 16,000 people, including a tribute to the LORD of 32.
- וּמִכְסָם֙umikhsamconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and tax their
Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as an offering for the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- מֶ֙כֶס֙mekhesnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tax of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.