Midvash

נָשַׁךְnâshak

נָשַׁךְ: bite

Pronunciation: naw-shak' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5391

Meanings

Qal: bite (Numbers 21:9; Amos 5:19; Amos 9:3)

Pi`el: bite, fatally (Jeremiah 8:17; Numbers 21:5)

נָשַׁךְ: pay, give interest

Qal: one giveth interest (Deuteronomy 23:20)

Hiph`il: make, give interest (Deuteronomy 23:20; Deuteronomy 23:21)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 16 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 49:17 Dan will be a snake beside the road, a poisonous viper along the path that bites the horse’s hooves so its rider is thrown off.
  • Numbers 21:6 So the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and many were bitten and died.
  • Numbers 21:8 Then the Lord told him, “Make a replica of a poisonous snake and attach it to a pole. All who are bitten will live if they simply look at it!”
  • Numbers 21:9 So Moses made a snake out of bronze and attached it to a pole. Then anyone who was bitten by a snake could look at the bronze snake and be healed!
  • Deuteronomy 23:19 “Do not charge interest on the loans you make to a fellow Israelite, whether you loan money, or food, or anything else.
  • Deuteronomy 23:20 You may charge interest to foreigners, but you may not charge interest to Israelites, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are about to enter and occupy.
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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).