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Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
extortion
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
cruelly, extortion, oppression, thing (deceitfully gotten).
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
extortion, ravening, spoiling
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
extortion, ravening
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
oppression, extortion, oppressed(-ion). (Doubtful.)
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
oppression, extortion, cruelly, extortion, oppression, thing (deceitfully gotten).
Strong's Concordance
Indexed occurrences: 7
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Nave's Topical Bible
Indexed references: 7
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Nave’s Topical Bible references for EXTORTION.
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One who farmed the taxes (e.g., Zacchaeus, Luke 19:2) to be levied from a town or district, and thus undertook to pay to the supreme government a certain amount. In order to collect the taxes, the publicans employed subordinates (5:27; 15:1; 18:10), who, for their own ends, were often guilty of extortion and peculation. In New Testament times these taxes were paid to the Romans, and hence were regarded by the Jews as a very heavy burden, and hence also the collectors of taxes, who were frequently Jews, were hated, and were usually spoken of in very opprobrious terms. Jesus was accused of being a "friend of publicans and sinners" (Luke 7:34).
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