GREEK · G20134
ἀργυρολόγητος
argurologētos — levy
subject to a levy in money
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Levy
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4522
מַס
mas — taskworker
1) gang or body of forced labourers, task-workers, labour band or gang, forced service, task-work, serfdom, tributary, tribute, levy, taskmasters, discomfited 1a) labour-band, labour-gang, slave gang 1b) gang-overseers 1c) forced service, serfdom, tribute, enforced payment
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στρατολογέω
stratologeō — to enlist
στρατολογέω, -ῶ (στρατός, λέγω), to levy a troop, enlist soldiers: 2Ti.2:4 (Diod., Plut., al.).† (AS)
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ξενολογέω
xenologeō — to enlist mercenaries
to enlist strangers, levy mercenaries , (Demosthenes Orator), etc. from ξενολόγος (ML)
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συλλογή
sullogē — collection
1. a gathering, collecting , (Thucydides): metaphorically, ἐν γενείου ξυλλογῇ τριχώματος in the first harvest of a beard, i. e. in early manhood, (Aeschulus Tragicus) 2. a levying of soldiers, Lat. conscriptio, (Xenophon Historicus) 3. a summary, recapitulation , (Demosthenes Orator) 4. (from Pass.) an assembly, meeting , (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)
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(1 Kings 4:6, R.V.; 5:13), forced service. The service of tributaries was often thus exacted by kings. Solomon raised a “great levy” of 30,000 men, about two per cent. of the population, to work for him by courses on Lebanon. Adoram (12:18) presided over this forced labour service (Ger. Frohndienst; Fr. corvee).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.