Pension
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; - sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant.
(2): ( n.) A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
(3): ( n.) A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.
(4): ( n.) A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
(5): ( n.) A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
Pension Only AV [Note: Authorized Version.] of 1Es 4:56 (AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] ‘portions of land,’ RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘lands’). This archaism is first found in the Geneva version, and is used in the original sense of ‘payment’ (Lat. pensio ).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
pen´shun (1 Esdras 4:56, the King James Version "and he commanded to give to all that kept the city pensions and wages"; κλῆρος , klḗros , "allotted portion," usually (here certainly) of lands (the Revised Version (British and American) "lands")): Literally it means simply "payment," and the King James Version seems to have used the word in order to avoid any specialization of klēros . There is no reference to payment for past services. See Lot .
