Nâshâh — H5383

Definition

verb

to lend or (by reciprocity) borrow on security or interest

1. to lend, be a creditor
1. (Qal)
1. to lend
2. creditor (participle) (subst)
2. (Hiphil) to lend

Usually translated as

usury, exact, lend, creditor, extortioner, usurer, lend on

Origin

a primitive root (rather identical with H5382, in the sense of H5378)

• Nâshâh (H5382)
• Nâshâʼ (H5378)

Occurrences

Nâshâh occurs 12 times in 11 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Deuteronomy (3), 2 Kings (1), Nehemiah (2), Psalms (1), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (1)

• Exodus 22:25 — If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer (כְּנֹשֶׁ֑ה), neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
• Deuteronomy 15:2 — And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth (יַשֶּׁ֖ה) ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’s release.
• Deuteronomy 24:10 — When thou dost lend (תַשֶּׁ֥ה) thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
• Deuteronomy 24:11 — Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend (נֹשֶׁ֣ה) shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
• 2 Kings 4:1 — Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor (וְהַ֨נֹּשֶׁ֔ה) is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
• Nehemiah 5:10 — I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact (נֹשִׁ֥ים) of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
• Nehemiah 5:11 — Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact (נֹשִׁ֥ים) of them.
• Psalms 109:11 — Let the extortioner (נ֭וֹשֶׁה) catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
• Isaiah 24:2 — And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury (כַּנֹּשֶׁ֕ה), so with the giver of usury to him.
• Isaiah 50:1 — Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors (מִנּוֹשַׁ֔י) is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
• Jeremiah 15:10 — Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury (נָשִׁ֥יתִי), nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
• Jeremiah 15:10 — Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury (נָֽשׁוּ); yet every one of them doth curse me.