Interest
מַשָּׁאStrong’s H4855mashsah (mash-sah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mashsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “usury” and “usury of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.”
Meaning
- Lending on interest, usuryin Ne 5:11, the rate of "usury" was only one per cent
How it's translated
- usury 1
- the usury 1
- and usury of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 5:10I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
- Nehemiah 10:31And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Hebrew dictionary
מַשָּׁא mashsah · interest
1) lending on interest, usury 1a) in Ne 5:11, the rate of "usury" was only one per cent
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “interest” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
IN'TEREST, verb transitive
[Latin inter and esse.]
- To concern; to affect; to excite emotion or passion, usually in favor, but sometimes against a person or thing.
- To give a share in.
- To have a share.
- To engage; as, to interest one in our favor.
All definitions and other forms of “interest”
IN'TEREST, noun
Concern; advantage; good; as private interest; public interest
- Influence over others.
- Share; portion; part; participation in value.
- Regard to private profit.
- Premium paid for the use of money; the profit per cent derived from money lent, or property used by another person, or from debts remaining unpaid.
- Any surplus advantage.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.