Definition

to lend or (by reciprocity) borrow on security or interest

Etymology

a primitive root (rather identical with H5382 (נָשָׁה), in the sense of H5378 (נָשָׁא));

Word family

• נָשָׁה nâshâh
• נָשָׁא nâshâʼ

How the KJV renders it

• creditor
• exact
• extortioner
• lend
• usurer
• lend on (taker on) usury

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.