Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4855
מַשָּׁא
mashshamash-shaw'
interest
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mashshâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4855is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4855
a loan; by implication, interest on adebt
The King James renders it: exaction, usury.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mashsha is rendered "interest". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Nehemiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Nehemiah 5:7and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them
Nehemiah 5:7מַשָּׁ֥א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Nehemiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and usury of1
- the usury1
- usury1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַשָּׂא | massa | burden | Uses66 |
| מַשָּׁאָה | mashshaah | loan | Uses2 |
| מַשָּׂאָה | massaah | smoke | Uses1 |
| מַשָּׁאוֹן | mashshaon | guile | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַמַּשָּׁ֥א1
- וּמַשָּׁ֥א1
- מַשָּׁ֥א1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Nehemiah
three uses
and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them
- מַשָּׁ֥אmasha'noun · masculine singulartagged: usury
I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.
- הַמַּשָּׁ֥אhamasha'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the usury
When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow, and will cancel every debt.
- וּמַשָּׁ֥אumasha'conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and usury of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.