noun · masculine
kēnsos
Strong’sG2778
a poll-tax
stem kēns-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† κῆνσος, -ου, ὁ (Lat. census),
SYN:: τέλος (q.v.), φόρος.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2778 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkane'-sos
properly, an enrollment ("census"), i.e. (by implication) a tax
Fromof Latin origin;
King Jamestribute.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
= Latin census, NT+3rd c.AD+
II poll-tax, NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kēnsos | kēnsois |
| object accusative | kēnson3×κῆνσον | kēnsoin |
| direct address vocative | kēnsor | kēnsoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kēnsou1×κήνσου | kēnsoiu |
| to, for dative | kēnso | kēnsoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kēnso is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
kēnson“taxes”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 17:25… gēau apo tinoiu labalō teleim ē kēnson? apo toiu huioiu autoiu ē apo …… of the earth collect customs and taxes: from their own sons, or from …
Matthew 22:17… ni tinem si dokatō; exestinatō dōara kēnson Kaisaro ē ou?… think: Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
Mark 12:14… hodan tou theou didaskasō; exestinatō dōara kēnson Kaisaro ē ou? dōaneia ē mē …… truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we …
kēnsou“tax”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Matthew 22:19epideikavar mi tem nomismem tou kēnsou. tois de prosferala auto dēnariem.… Me the coin used for the tax.” And they brought Him a denarius.