STRONGS G582:
													
												
									    		ἀπογραφή, 
-ῆς, 
ἡ, (
ἀπογράφω);
a. a writing off, transcript (from some pattern).
b. an enrolment (or registration) 
in the public records of persons together with their property and income, as the basis of an 
ἀποτίμησις (
census or valuation), 
i. e. that it might appear how much tax should be levied upon each one: 
Luke 2:2; 
Acts 5:37; on the occurrence spoken of in both passages, cf. 
Schürer, Ntl. Zeitgesch. § 17, pp. 251, 262-286, and books there mentioned; [McClellan 1:392-399; 
B. D. under the word 
Taxing]. 
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