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# creditor

noun (creditor, creditors)

«creditor» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A person or firm to whom money is owed, who is waiting to be paid back. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditor/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories, the person who lends money and wants it repaid at once

### Examples

- The creditor asked for his money. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditor/#x1)
- The shopkeeper was a creditor of the farmer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditor/#x2)
- Every creditor wanted to be paid that day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditor/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths in ordinary sums; in a money-owed problem the amount owed is what the debtor must pay back to the creditor

## In Jewish tradition

In the Torah a creditor may not charge interest to a poor Israelite and must cancel debts in the seventh year.

**Interpretation.** Tradition calls this the shemitah release of debts, and reads it as teaching kindness to the poor. Later rabbis made a legal device, the prozbul, to protect lending.

### Examples

- If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest. (Torah EXO.22.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creditor/#x1)
- And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed. (Torah DEU.15.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creditor/#x2)
- Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? (Prophets ISA.50.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creditor/#x3)
- Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour. (Writings PSA.109.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creditor/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths in ordinary sums; in a money-owed problem the amount owed is what the debtor must pay back to the creditor

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «creditor» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditor/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«creditor» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/creditor.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «creditor» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creditor/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«creditor» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/creditor.html) on Mova free.