marbit · increase, interest

What it means

marbit (מַרְבִּית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “increase, interest”.

Increase, profit taken from a loan; elsewhere, a great number.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What is added: the gain a loan yields, interest.
2. Most of them, the larger part.
3. How vast something is; its greatness, which exceeds what was heard of it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• majority ×2
• greatness ×1
• increase ×1
• profit ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2

• Leviticus 25:37

  You shall not give him your silver at interest, and you shall not give your food for profit.

• 1 Samuel 2:33

  And the man of yours whom I do not cut off from my altar will be there to consume your eyes and to grieve your soul; and all the increase of your house will die as men.

• 1 Chronicles 12:29

  and of the sons of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand; for until then the majority of them had been keeping the guard of the house of Saul;

• 2 Chronicles 9:6

  But I did not believe their words until I came and my eyes saw; and look, not half of the greatness of your wisdom was told me; you have added to the report that I heard.

• 2 Chronicles 30:18

  For the majority of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover not as it is written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May YHWH, the good one, make expiation for