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levi | levy |

As a proper noun Levi

is the third son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.

As a verb levy is

to impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.

As a noun levy is

the act of levying.

levi

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The third son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.
  • * 1611 , 35:22b-26 :
    • Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: 23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi , and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: 24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: 25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: 26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.
  • One of the Biblical tribes of Israelites, descended from Levi; the tribe from which priests were selected.
  • * 1611 , 13:33
    • But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.
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    • Derived terms

    * Levite * Levitical * Leviticus

    See also

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    Anagrams

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    levy

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) leve'', from (etyl) ''levee'', from ''lever "to raise".

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property
    • to levy a tax
  • To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
  • * Shakespeare
    • If they do this my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied .
  • To draft someone into military service
  • To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrolment, conscription. etc.
  • * Fuller
    • Augustine inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
  • To wage war
  • To raise, as a siege.
    • (Holland)
  • (legal) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
    • to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
    (Cowell)

    Noun

    (levies)
  • The act of levying.
  • * Thirlwall
    • A levy of all the men left under sixty.
  • The tax, property or people so levied.
  • * Macaulay
    • The Irish levies .

    Etymology 2

    Contraction of elevenpence.

    Noun

    (levies)
  • (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

    • See also

    * levee * Levi ----