Hebrew verb · H6237
עָשַׂר
asaraw-sar'
to tithe
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâsar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6237is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6237
to tithe, i.e. to take or give atenth
The King James renders it: [idiom] surely, give (take) the tenth, (have, take) tithe(-ing, -s), [idiom] truly.
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
asar is rendered "to tithe". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 28:22And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”
Genesis 28:22עַשֵּׂ֖ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's nine uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- fully tithe2
- he will take a tenth2
- I will tithe it1
- the collect tithes1
- to tithe1
- when collect tithes1
- you will tithe1
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.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- יַעְשֹׂ֑ר2
- אֲעַשְּׂרֶ֥נּוּ1
- בַּעְשֵׂ֣ר1
- הַֽמְעַשְּׂרִ֔ים1
- לַ֠עְשֵׂר1
- עַשֵּׂ֖ר1
- עַשֵּׂ֣ר1
- תְּעַשֵּׂ֔ר1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vhcc
- verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)2HVpcc
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqi3ms
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural1HTd/Vprmpa
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi1cs/Sp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpi2ms
Genesis
two uses
And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”
- עַשֵּׂ֖רʾaserverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: fully tithe
- אֲעַשְּׂרֶ֥נּוּʾaasserenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I will tithe it
Deuteronomy
three uses
You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.
- עַשֵּׂ֣רʾaserverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: fully tithe
- תְּעַשֵּׂ֔רteaserverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will tithe
When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.
- לַ֠עְשֵׂרla'serpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to tithe
1 Samuel
two uses
He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.
- יַעְשֹׂ֑רya'sorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will take a tenth
He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
- יַעְשֹׂ֑רya'sorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will take a tenth
Nehemiah
two uses
Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.
- הַֽמְעַשְּׂרִ֔יםhamaserimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the collect tithes
A priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.
- בַּעְשֵׂ֣רba'serpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when collect tithes
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.