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Strong's #5378: nasha' (pronounced naw-shaw')

a primitive root (perhaps identical with 5377, through the idea of imposition); to lend on interest; by implication, to dun for debt:--X debt, exact, giver of usury.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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nâshâ'

1) to lend on interest or usury, be a creditor

1a) (Qal) creditor (participle)

1b) (Hiphil) to act as a creditor

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [perhaps identical with H5377, through the idea of imposition]



Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

1 Samuel 22:2: "and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented,"
Nehemiah 5:7: "and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set"
Psalms 89:22: "The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict"
Isaiah 24:2: "so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury"









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