Hebrew · H5392, G5110 · unreviewed

נֶשֶׁךְ

Interest on a debt · interest on money loaned (as a produce)

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נֶשֶׁךְ H5392 interest on a debt
Pronunciation neshekh
Prohibited interest on loans to fellow Israelites, marking economic justice as covenant obligation
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τόκος G5110 interest on money loaned (as a produce)
Pronunciation tókos
Money's reproductive capacity through lending; interest treated as unnatural offspring of capital.
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What does נֶשֶׁךְ (neshek) mean in the Bible?

נֶשֶׁךְ · τόκος is a Hebrew word meaning "interest charged on a loan, often associated with exploitation".

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Meaning

interest charged on a loan, often associated with exploitation
Grammatical Forms

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Word Pictures (Robertson)

A.T. Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament (1930–31) discusses this term in the following chapters. Open any chapter and go to the Word Pictures tab to read his verse-by-verse commentary.

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