נֶשֶׁךְ
neshek · H5392 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences
Meanings
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interest
The amount of money a person is required to pay for having borrowed money, food, or something of value
ExamplesExodus 22:25 “If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.
Leviticus 25:36 ‘Do not take any kind of interest from him, but fear your God, so that your countryman may live with you.
Leviticus 25:37 ‘You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for profit.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1
- כֶּסֶףsilver 1
- אֹכֶלfood 1
What is done to itIt is the object
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- לָקַחto take, to receive 3
- נָשַׁךְto bite 1
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 10
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- τόκος tókos · G5110 · interest
- Greek τόκος renders Hebrew נֶשֶׁךְ as the standard LXX translation equivalent for the concept of interest charged on loans, both terms denoting the financial return extracted from borrowed capital (though Hebrew נֶשֶׁךְ etymologically emphasizes the 'biting' nature of usury while Greek τόκος frames it as 'produce' or 'offspring' of the principal).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Non-Possess002003002018
- The word names usury or interest charged on a loan, forbidden when lent to a fellow Israelite (Leviticus 25:36-37, Deuteronomy 23:19), tying the word to this financial exaction.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5392. neshek נֶ֫שֶׁךְ noun [masculine] interest, usury (literally something bitten off);…
נֶ֫שֶׁךְ noun [masculine] interest, usury (literally something bitten off); — ׳נ absolute Exo 22:24 +; construct Deu 23:20; — with עַלֿ שִׂים Exo 22:24 (E); with מִן לָקַח Lev 25:36, מִן הֵשִׁיב Eze 18:17, לָקַח Eze 22:12 (no preposition), בְּנֶשֶׁךְ Lev 25:37 at interest, so Psa 15:5; Eze 18:8, Eze 18:13; ׳בְּנ Pro 28:8 by usury; as accusative of congnate meaning with verb Deu 23:20 (3 t. in verse).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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