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Strong’s H5378 · Hebrew

נָשָׁא

nâshâʼ · naw-shaw'

Origin a primitive root (perhaps identical with נָשָׁא (H5377), through the idea of imposition);

Meaning to lend on interest; by implication, to dun fordebt

In the King James Version [idiom] debt, exact, giver of usury.

In 4 verses of the King James Version

  1. 1 Samuel 22:2And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
  2. Nehemiah 5:7Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
  3. Psalms 89:22The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
  4. Isaiah 24:2And 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, so with the giver of usury to him.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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