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# נֶשֶׁךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5392

**interest** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

interest [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5392/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶ֫שֶׁךְ: interest, usury [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5392/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] interest, usury (lit. something bitten off);—נ׳ abs. Ex 22:24 +; cstr. Dt 23:20;—c. שִׂים עַל־ Ex 22:24 (E); c. לָקַח מִן Lv 25:36, הֵשִׁיב מִן Ez 18:17, לָקַח 22:12 (no prep.), בְּנֶשֶׁךְ Lv 25:37 at interest, so ψ 15:5 Ez 18:8, 13; בְּנ׳ Pr 28:8 by usury; as acc. cogn. Dt 23:20(×3).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: interest (12).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 28:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.8/#tree)

מַרְבֶּ֣ה ה֭וֹנוֹ בְּנֶ֣שֶׁךְ וְתַרְבִּ֑ית לְחוֹנֵ֖ן דַּלִּ֣ים יִקְבְּצֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].increases wealth his by interest and usury for \[one.who\].shows.favor.to poor.\[people\] he gathers.it

*JPS 1917:* He that augmenteth his substance by interest and increase, gathereth it for him that is gracious to the poor.

[Deuteronomy 23:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.20/#tree)

לֹא־תַשִּׁ֣יךְ לְאָחִ֔יךָ נֶ֥שֶׁךְ כֶּ֖סֶף נֶ֣שֶׁךְ אֹ֑כֶל נֶ֕שֶׁךְ כָּל־דָּבָ֖ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִשָּֽׁךְ׃

*Word for word:* not you.will.charge.interest to countryman your interest of.money interest of.food interest of.any thing which someone.will.pay.interest

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5392.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5392/): 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).