Levy
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc.
(2): ( v. i.) To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods.
(3): ( n.) That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc.
(4): ( v. t.) To raise, as a siege.
(5): ( v. t.) To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc.
(6): ( v. t.) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
(7): ( v. t.) To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution.
(8): ( v. t.) To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.
(9): ( v. t.) To gather or exact; as, to levy money.
(10): ( n.) A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.
(11): ( n.) The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution.
King James Dictionary [2]
Lev'Y, L levo Eng. to lift.
1. To raise to collect. To levy troops, is to enlist or to order men into public service. To levy an army, is to collect troops and form an army by enrollment, conscription or other means. 2. To raise to collect by assessment as, to levy taxes, toll tribute, or contributions.
To levy war, is to raise or begin war to take arms for attack to attack.
To levy a fine, to commence and carry on a suit for assuring the title to lands or tenements.
LEV'Y, n.
1. The act of collecting men for military, or other public service, as by enlistment, enrollment or other means. 1 Kings 9 . 2. Troops collected an army raised. 1 Kings 5 . 3. The act of collecting money for public use by tax or other imposition. 4. War raised. Not in use.
Holman Bible Dictionary [3]
Numbers 31:28
Easton's Bible Dictionary [4]
1 Kings 4:6
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
( כמִס , Mas, Tribute, as usually rendered), a Tax or requirement of service imposed by Eastern kings for public works, hence a Gang or company of men impressed into such service ( 1 Kings 5:13-14; 1 Kings 9:15). In two passages other terms ( עָלָה . 1 Kings 9:21; רוּם , Numbers 31:28) are employed in connection with this, to denote the Exaction of tribute. (See Tribute).
