To exact
נָשָׁאStrong’s H5378nasah (na-sah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nasah is the Hebrew word usually translated “creditor” and “impose”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.”
Meaning
- To lend on interest or usury, be a creditor(Qal) creditor (participle) · (Hiphil) to act as a creditor
How it's translated
- a creditor 2
- and he will impose 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 8:31If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:
- Isaiah 24:2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Hebrew dictionary
נָשָׁא nasah · to exact
1) to lend on interest or usury, be a creditor 1a) (Qal) creditor (participle) 1b) (Hiphil) to act as a creditor
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “exact” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EXACT', verb transitive
egzact'. [Latin exigo, exactum. See the Adjective.]
- To force or compel to pay or yield; to demand or require authoritatively; to extort by means of authority or without pity or justice.
- To demand or right.
- To demand of necessity; to enforce a yielding or compliance; or to enjoin with pressing urgency.
All definitions and other forms of “exact”
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.