Bible dictionaries
Receiver
What Bible dictionaries say about “Receiver”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Receiver - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
RECE'IVER, n.
1. One who takes or receives in any manner.
2. An officer appointed to receive public money; a treasurer.
3. One who takes stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen, and incurs the guilt of partaking in the crime.
4. A vessel for receiving and containing the product of distillation.
5. The vessel of an air pump, for containing the thing on which an experiment is to be made.
6. One who partakes of the sacrament.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
re-sev'-er: Found in the King James Version (Isa 33:18); but the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes "he that weighed the tribute." The Hebrew is shoqel, which means "one who weighs," "a weigher."
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915