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Strong's #6237: `asar (pronounced aw-sar')

a primitive root (ident. with 6238); to accumulate; but used only as denominative from 6235; to tithe, i.e. to take or give a tenth:--X surely, give (take) the tenth, (have, take) tithe(-ing, -s), X truly.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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‛âśar

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root (ident. with H6238)



Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

Genesis 28:22: "and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth"
Genesis 28:22: "and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth"
Deuteronomy 14:22: " Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth"
Deuteronomy 14:22: " Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth"
Deuteronomy 26:12: "When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third"
1 Samuel 8:15: " And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants."
1 Samuel 8:17: " He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants."
Nehemiah 10:37: "unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage."
Nehemiah 10:38: "with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe"









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