maaser · tithe

What it means

maaser (מַעֲשֵׂר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tithe”.

A tenth of something.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. One part in ten of harvest and livestock, given to YHWH.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• tithe ×24
• tithes ×5
• tenth ×3

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×6
• Deuteronomy×7
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Nehemiah×6
• Ezekiel×2
• Amos×1
• Malachi×2

• Genesis 14:20

  and blessed be El Elyon, who has delivered your adversaries into your hand.” And he gave him a tenth of everything.

• Leviticus 27:30

  And every tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is YHWH’s; it is holy to YHWH.

• Leviticus 27:31

  And if a man does wish to redeem any of his tithe, he shall add a fifth of it to it.

• Leviticus 27:32

  And every tithe of the herd or of the flock, all that passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to YHWH.

• Numbers 18:21

  And to the sons of Levi, look, I have given every tithe in Israel as an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, the service of the tent of meeting.

• Numbers 18:24

  For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they set apart to YHWH as a contribution, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the sons of Israel they shall not inherit an inheritance.’”

• Numbers 18:26

  “And to the Levites you shall speak and say to them, ‘When you take from the sons of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall set apart from it a contribution for YHWH, a tithe of the tithe.

• Numbers 18:28

  So you also shall set apart a contribution for YHWH from all your tithes that you take from the sons of Israel, and you shall give from it the contribution for YHWH to Aaron the priest.

• Deuteronomy 12:6

  There you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, your vows and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

• Deuteronomy 12:11

  Then to the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all the choicest of your vows that you vow to YHWH.

• Deuteronomy 12:17

  You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or of your new wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vows that you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand;

• Deuteronomy 14:23

  And you shall eat before YHWH your Elohim, in the place that he chooses to make his name dwell there, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to fear YHWH your Elohim all the days.

• Deuteronomy 14:28

  At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year and lay it up within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 26:12

  When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, and have given it to the Levite, to the resident alien, to the orphan, and to the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be satisfied,

• 2 Chronicles 31:5

  When the order spread, the sons of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the produce of the field; and the tithe of everything they brought in abundance.

• 2 Chronicles 31:6

  And the sons of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah, they too brought the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of the holy things consecrated to YHWH their Elohim, and they laid them in heaps upon heaps.

• 2 Chronicles 31:12

  They brought in the contribution and the tithe and the holy things with faithfulness. Over them as leader was Conaniah the Levite, and Shimei his brother was second.

• Nehemiah 10:37

  and the first of our dough, and our contributions, and the fruit of every tree, new wine and oil, we will bring to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our Elohim; and the tithe of our ground to the Levites; and they, the Levites, are the ones who receive the tithe in all the cities of our labor.

• Nehemiah 10:38

  And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithe; and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithe to the house of our Elohim, to the chambers, to the house of the treasury.

• Nehemiah 12:44

  And on that day men were appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the contributions, for the first part and for the tithes, to gather into them, from the fields of the cities, the portions of the law for the priests and for the Levites; for the rejoicing of Judah was over the priests and over the Levites who stood in their place.

• Nehemiah 13:5

  had made for him a large chamber, where previously they had been putting the grain offering, the frankincense, and the utensils, and the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, what was commanded for the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the contribution of the priests.

• Nehemiah 13:12

  Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil to the treasuries.

• Ezekiel 45:11

  The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, so that the bath contains a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; according to the homer shall be its measure.

• Ezekiel 45:14

  And the statute for the oil, the bath of oil: a tenth of a bath from each kor; ten baths are a homer, for ten baths are a homer.

• Amos 4:4

  Come to Bethel and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring every morning your sacrifices, every three days your tithes.

• Malachi 3:8

  Will a human being rob Elohim? Yet you are robbing me. And you say, “How have we robbed you?” In the tithe and the contribution.

• Malachi 3:10

  Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house; and test me, please, in this, says YHWH Tsevaot, if I will not open for you the floodgates of the heavens and pour out on you blessing until there is no more need.

And 5 more times.