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What is the original meaning of "tithe"?
AMoney given to a church.
BTax.
CTenth.✓ Correct Answer
DFood given to the poor.
Answer & Explanation
✓ Tenth.
The correct answer is Tenth.. Tithe means "one-tenth" and originally was the ordinal number "tenth" in Old English. It came to refer to money given to the church, because if was used to translate numerous Hebrew references in the Old Testament to giving the "tenth" part of a crop to God. E.g. Deuteronomy 14:22-29, "Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year."