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# תַּרְבִּית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8636

**increment** — used 6 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

increment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8636/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּרְבִּית: n.f. increment, interest, usury [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8636/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. increment, interest, usury (= מַרְבִּית 1 b; cf. (on both) Arabic رَبَا iv. take usury, رِبًا interest, usury, Syriac ܪܶܒܺܝܬܳܐ; SaalschützMos. Recht (ii. 1848), 859 HoelemannLetzte Bibelstud. (1885). 297 f. Di Lv 25:36 Benn Hast. DB debt);—alw. abs. ת׳: + נֶשֶׁךְ Lv 25:36 (H), Ez 18:17; 22:12; Pr 28:8; ‖ id. Ez 18:8, 13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: usury (6).

## 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.

[Leviticus 25:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.36/#tree)

אַל־תִּקַּ֤ח מֵֽאִתּוֹ֙ נֶ֣שֶׁךְ וְתַרְבִּ֔ית וְיָרֵ֖אתָ מֵֽאֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ וְחֵ֥י אָחִ֖יךָ עִמָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* do.not take from with him interest and usury and you.will.fear from God your and he.will.live brother your with you

*JPS 1917:* Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8636.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8636/): 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).