tribute
mas.et denotes a required contribution, gift, or allotted portion, with rarer uses in signal and burden-related contexts.
The attested uses most often concern something given, assigned, or exacted: a required contribution, royal gift, food portion, tax, or offering. Other verses place the noun in descriptions of a smoke signal, while two contexts associate it with false pronouncements or a burden and reproach.
Senses in use
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Contributions, gifts, and allotted portions · dominant
In 2 Chronicles 24:6 and 2 Chronicles 24:9, the construct singular occurs in the requirement to bring the contribution connected with Moses and the assembly. In Genesis 43:34 the plural occurs where portions are taken and given out, while 2 Samuel 11:8 and Jeremiah 40:5 place the singular in scenes where a king or chief guard sends a gift or provisions. Ezekiel 20:40 and Psalm 141:2 further place the noun among required contributions and an evening offering.
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Raised signal marked by smoke · occasional
In Judges 20:38, the construct singular occurs in the arranged sign for a great cloud of smoke to rise from the city; in Judges 20:40, the signal begins to go up as a pillar of smoke. Jeremiah 6:1 likewise places the singular in the instruction to raise a signal over Beth-haccherem as distress approaches.
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Burden or pronouncement-related context · rare
Lamentations 2:14 uses the plural construct in a clause about prophets seeing false oracles and misleading words. Zephaniah 3:18 uses the singular where those mourning for the appointed feast are described as a burden and reproach; the noun's precise English contribution in these translated clauses is less isolated.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the dominant contexts with “tribute,” “gifts,” “portions,” “contributions,” and an “offering,” while the signal passages use “signal” and the remaining clauses mention “false oracles” and a “burden.” These are renderings of whole translated verses, not a fixed word-by-word translation of the noun.