To lend
נָשָׁהStrong’s H5383nashah (na-shah)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nashah is the Hebrew word usually translated “lending”, “like a creditor” and “lend”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.”
Meaning
- To lend, be a creditor(Qal) · (Hiphil) to lend
How it's translated
- lending 3
- like a creditor 1
- he will lend 1
- you will lend 1
- and the creditor 1
- a creditor 1
- as the creditor 1
- of creditors my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 3
- Nehemiah 2
- Isaiah 2
- Exodus 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Psalms 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 15:2And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’s release.
- Deuteronomy 24:10When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
- Deuteronomy 24:11Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
- 2 Kings 4:1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
- 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 5:11Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Hebrew dictionary
נָשָׁה nashah · to lend
1) to lend, be a creditor 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to lend 1a2) creditor (participle) (subst) 1b) (Hiphil) to lend
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lend” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEND, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive lent.
- To grant to another for temporary use, on the express or implied condition that the thing shall be returned; as, to lend a book; or
- To grant a thing to be used, on the condition that its equivalent in kind shall be returned; as, to lend a sum of money, or a loaf of bread.
- To afford; to grant; to furnish, in general; as, to lend assistance; to lend an ear to a discourse.
- To grant for temporary use, on condition of receiving a compensation at certain periods for the use of the thing, and an ultimate return of the thing, or its full value.
All definitions
- To permit to use for another's benefit.
- To let for hire or compensation; as, to lend a horse or gig. [This sense is used by Paley, and probably may be common in England.
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.