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# levy

«levy» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a tax or charge that people or companies must pay** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a levy, levies); verb (levy, levies, levied, levying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A levy is a tax or charge that people or companies must pay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/#m1)

2) To levy a tax or fine is to make people pay it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/#m2)

3) (history) A levy was also a group of soldiers called up to fight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A levy is a share taken from the spoil of war and given to God. In the time of the kings it also meant a group of workers called up from the people for the king's service, with an officer set over it. Interpretation: The tradition reads the levy as dedicating part of the victory to God. Solomon's levy of thirty thousand men is told as a heavy burden on the people. In the primary lessons: Used in news, adult life and money lessons: a sugar levy on fizzy drinks, a plastic bag levy. In history: a king levied taxes or levied troops. Phrases: levy a tax, impose a levy.

### examples

- and levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war that went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the flocks; (Torah NUM.31.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/#x1)
- and Adoram was over the levy; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder; (Prophets 2SA.20.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/#x2)
- and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy. (Prophets 1KI.4.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/#x3)
- And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. (Prophets 1KI.5.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/#x4)
- The government put a levy on sugary drinks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/#x5)
- Shops charge a small levy for plastic bags. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/#x6)
- The king levied a tax on wool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/#x7)
- The council levied a fine on the builder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/#x8)
- A levy of soldiers was raised for the war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/#x9)
- Part of the price goes to the levy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/#x10)
- But don't you levy taxes too early." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/#x11)

### note

Plural: levies. Past: levied. It is a formal word; in everyday talk people say «tax» or «charge». In a maths problem, a levy is an extra amount added to the price, so you add it.

### In the corpora

- [and Adoram was over the levy; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.631/)
- [and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.142/)
- [And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.183/)
- [Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the levy; and all Israel stoned him with stones, so that he died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.469/)
- [In 1994 pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, leaving dark scars bigger than the Earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «levy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/levy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.