Lexicon apographé: a register, enrollment Original Word: ἀπογραφή, ῆς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: apographé Phonetic Spelling: (ap-og-raf-ay') Short Definition: an enrollment, census-taking, record Definition: an enrollment, census-taking, record. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom apographóDefinitiona register, enrollment NASB Translationcensus (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 582: ἀπογραφήἀπογραφή, ἀπογραφῆς, ἡ ( ἀπογράφω); a. a writing off, transcript (from some pattern). b. "an enrolment (or registration) in the public records of persons together with their property and income," as the basis of an ἀποτίμησις (census or valuation), i. e. that it might appear how much tax should be levied upon each one: Luke 2:2; Acts 5:37; on the occurrence spoken of in both passages, compare Schürer, Ntl. Zeitgesch. § 17, pp. 251, 262-286, and books there mentioned; (McClellan 1:392-399; B. D. under the word Taxing).
Strong's taxing. From apographo; an enrollment; by implication, an assessment -- taxing. see GREEK apographo |
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