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Strong's #4855: mashsha' (pronounced mash-shaw')

from 5383; a loan; by implication, interest on a debt:--exaction, usury.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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mashshâ'

1) lending on interest, usury

1a) in Nehemiah 5:11, the rate of "usury" was only one per cent

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H5383



Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

Nehemiah 5:7: "and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great"
Nehemiah 5:10: "you, let us leave off this usury."
Nehemiah 10:31: "the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt."









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