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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Tribute:

a tax imposed by a king on his subjects (2Sa 20:24; 1Ki 4:6; Rom 13:6). In Mat 17:24-27 the word denotes the temple rate (the "didrachma," the "half-shekel," as rendered by the R.V.) which was required to be paid for the support of the temple by every Jew above twenty years of age (Exd 30:12; 2Ki 12:4; 2Ch 24:6,9). It was not a civil but a religious tax.

In Mat 22:17, Mar 12:14, Luk 20:22, the word may be interpreted as denoting the capitation tax which the Romans imposed on the Jewish people. It may, however, be legitimately regarded as denoting any tax whatever imposed by a foreign power on the people of Israel. The "tribute money" shown to our Lord (Mat 22:19) was the denarius, bearing Caesar's superscription. It was the tax paid by every Jew to the Romans. (See PENNY.)

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