Midvash

נָשָׁאnâshâʼ

נָשָׁא: lend on interest, or usury, be a creditor

Pronunciation: naw-shaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5378

Meanings

Qal: active, a creditor (1 Samuel 22:2; Isaiah 24:2; Nehemiah 5:7)

Hiph`il: an enemy shall not act the creditor against him, make exactions of him (Psalms 89:23; 1 Kings 8:31; 2 Chronicles 6:22)

נָשָׁה: lend, become a creditor, (compare I. נשׁא)

Qal: lend (Jeremiah 15:10; Exodus 22:24; Nehemiah 5:10)

Hiph`il: who lendeth to, thou lendest to (Deuteronomy 15:2; Deuteronomy 24:10)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 22:2 Then others began coming—men who were in trouble or in debt or who were just discontented—until David was the captain of about 400 men.
  • 1 Kings 8:31 “If someone wrongs another person and is required to take an oath of innocence in front of your altar in this Temple,
  • Isaiah 24:2 Priests and laypeople, servants and masters, maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, bankers and debtors—none will be spared.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).