Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5392
נֶשֶׁךְ
neshekneh'-shek
interest
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5392is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5392
interest on a debt
The King James renders it: 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
neshek is rendered "interest". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 22:25If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
Exodus 22:25נֶֽשֶׁךְ׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's twelve uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- interest4
- interest of3
- for interest2
- for the interest2
- by interest1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- נֶ֣שֶׁךְ2
- בְּנֶשֶׁךְ֮1
- בְּנֶ֑שֶׁךְ1
- בְּנֶ֣שֶׁךְ1
- בַּנֶּ֣שֶׁךְ1
- בַּנֶּ֧שֶׁךְ1
- נֶ֥שֶׁךְ1
- נֶ֕שֶׁךְ1
- נֶ֤שֶׁךְ1
- נֶ֧שֶׁךְ1
- נֶֽשֶׁךְ׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular3HR/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
Exodus
one use
If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
- נֶֽשֶׁךְ׃neshekhnoun · masculine singulartagged: interest
Leviticus
two uses
Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
- נֶ֣שֶׁךְneshekhnoun · masculine singulartagged: interest
You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
- בְּנֶ֑שֶׁךְbeneshekhpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for interest
Deuteronomy
three uses
Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
- נֶ֥שֶׁךְneshekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: interest of
- נֶ֣שֶׁךְneshekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: interest of
- נֶ֕שֶׁךְneshekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: interest of
Psalms
one use
who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
- בְּנֶשֶׁךְ֮beneshekhpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for interest
Proverbs
one use
He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
- בְּנֶ֣שֶׁךְbeneshekhpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: by interest
Ezekiel
four uses
He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
- בַּנֶּ֣שֶׁךְbaneshekhpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the interest
He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
- בַּנֶּ֧שֶׁךְbaneshekhpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the interest
He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
- נֶ֤שֶׁךְneshekhnoun · masculine singulartagged: interest
In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
- נֶ֧שֶׁךְneshekhnoun · masculine singulartagged: interest
The letters
Gematria 370· 850 mispar gadol
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.