Increment
תַּרְבִּיתStrong’s H8636tarbit (tar-bit)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tarbit is the Hebrew word usually translated “interest”, “profit” and “usury”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.”
Meaning
- Increment, usury, interest, bonus
How it's translated
- and interest 4
- and profit 1
- and usury 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
- Leviticus 1
- Proverbs 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 28:8He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
- Ezekiel 18:8He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
- Ezekiel 18:13Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
- Ezekiel 18:17That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
- Ezekiel 22:12In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּרְבִּית tarbit · increment
increment, usury, interest, bonus
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “increment” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
IN'CREMENT, noun
[Latin incrementum, from incresco. See Increase.]
- Increase; a growing in bulk, quantity, number, value or amount; augmentation.
- Produce; production.
- Matter added; increase.
- In mathematics, the quantity by which a variable quantity increases; a differential quantity.
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.