To bite
נָשַׁךְStrong’s H5391nashakh (na-shakh)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nashakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “charge interest”, “it will bite” and “bites”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.”
Meaning
- To bite(Qal) to bite · (Piel) to bite
- To pay, give interest, lend for interest or usury(Qal) to give interest · (Hiphil) to make to give interest
How it's translated
- you will charge interest 3
- it will bite 2
- the bites 1
- and they bit 1
- is bitten 1
- it had bitten 1
- someone will pay interest 1
- it will bite him 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- Ecclesiastes 2
- Amos 2
- Genesis 1
- Proverbs 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 21:6And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
- Numbers 21:8And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
- Numbers 21:9And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
- Deuteronomy 23:19Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
- Deuteronomy 23:20Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
- Proverbs 23:32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Hebrew dictionary
נָשַׁךְ nashakh · to bite
1) to bite 1a) (Qal) to bite 1b) (Piel) to bite
נָשַׁךְ nashakh · to pay interest
1) to pay, give interest, lend for interest or usury 1a) (Qal) to give interest 1b) (Hiphil) to make to give interest
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bite” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BITE, verb transitive
preterit tense bit; participle passive bit, bitten.
- To break or crush with the teeth, as in eating; to pierce with the teeth, as a serpent; to seize with the teeth, as a dog.
- To pinch or pain, as with cold; as a biting north wind; the frost bites.
- To reproach with sarcasm; to treat with severity by words or writing; as, one poet praises, another bites.
- To pierce, cut, or wound; as a biting falchion.
All definitions and other forms of “bite”
- To make to smart, as acids bite the mouth.
- To cheat; to trick.
- To enter the ground and hold fast, as the bill and palm of an anchor.
- To injure by angry contention.“If ye bite and devour one another” Galatians 5:15
BITE, noun
The seizure of any thing by the teeth of an animal, as the bite of a dog; or with the mouth, as of a fish.
- The wound made by the teeth.
- A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting; a mouthful.
- A cheat; a trick; a fraud. [A low word.]
- A sharper; one who cheats.
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.