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H5391 נָשַׁךְ (nâshak) naw-shak'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

a primitive root; to strike with a sting (as a serpent); figuratively, to oppress with interest on a loan

KJV Usage: bite, lend upon usury

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

נָשַׁךְ (na.shakh) — to bite. 1) to bite 1a) (Qal) to bite 1b) (Piel) to bite

נָשַׁךְ (na.shakh) — to pay interest. 1) to pay, give interest, lend for interest or usury 1a) (Qal) to give interest 1b) (Hiphil) to make to give interest

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

verb

Impact | verb qal, verb pi

to bite = action by which a person or animal uses teeth to cut into something, like another person or animal

GEN 49:17 · NUM 21:6 · NUM 21:8 · NUM 21:9 · PRO 23:32 · ECC 10:8 · ECC 10:11 · JER 8:17 · AMO 5:19 · AMO 9:3

Ingest | verb qal

to bite > to eat literally: to bite; hence: = to ingest food

MIC 3:5

verb

Non-Possess | verb qal

to pay interest = action in which a person is required to pay interest to someone else for having borrowed money, food, or something of value

DEU 23:20

Non-Possess | verb hif

Collocation: נשׁך נֶשֶׁךְ

to charge interest, to collect interest = action in which a person requires someone to pay interest for having borrowed money, food, or something of value

DEU 23:20 · DEU 23:21 · DEU 23:21

People | verb qal ptc.act

creditor = a person who has lent money, food, or something of value to someone else and requires that person to pay interest

HAB 2:7

Steve Berneking

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

נָשַׁךְ vb. bite Qal bite

Pi. and they shall bite you fatally

base

[נָשַׁךְ] vb. denom pay, give interest Qal interest of anything off which one giveth interest

Hiph. make one give interest

base

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