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# נְשִׁי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5386

**debt** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

debt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5386/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְשִׁי: debt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5386/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] debt;—only sf. 2 fs. נשׁיכי Kt, נַשְׁיֵךְ Qr 2 K 4:7 (so Baer; van d. H. Ginsb נִשְׁיֵךְ) pay (שַׁלְּמִי) thy debt.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: debt (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 4:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.7/#tree)

וַתָּבֹ֗א וַתַּגֵּד֙ לְאִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לְכִי֙ מִכְרִ֣י אֶת־הַשֶּׁ֔מֶן וְשַׁלְּמִ֖י אֶת־נִשְׁיֵ֑ךְ וְאַ֣תְּ וּבָנַ֔יִךְ תִֽחְיִ֖י בַּנּוֹתָֽר׃פ

*Word for word:* and she.came and she.told to the.man of.(the) God and he.said go sell (et) the oil and pay (et) debt your and you and children your you.will.live by the remainder

*JPS 1917:* Then she came and told the man of God. And he said: 'Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons of the rest.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5386.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5386/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).