נֶשֶׁךְ neshek

Meaning

interest on a debt

In the King James Version: usury.

Derivation: from H5391 (נָשַׁךְ);

Where it is used

• Exodus 22:25 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.
• Leviticus 25:36 Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
• Leviticus 25:37 You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
• Deuteronomy 23:19 Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
• Psalms 15:5 who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
• Proverbs 28:8 He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
• Ezekiel 18:8 He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
• Ezekiel 18:13 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.
• Ezekiel 18:17 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.
• Ezekiel 22:12 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.