nasha · lend at interest; creditor

What it means

nasha (נָשָׁא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lend at interest; creditor”.

Lend at interest; as a noun, the creditor, the one who demands payment of a debt.

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. Loan at interest; one who demands what is owed.
2. Place something on someone, like an oath.
3. To fall on someone when they do not expect it, in order to defeat them.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• creditor ×1
• he lays ×1
• owes him ×1
• take him by surprise ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1

• 1 Samuel 22:2

  There gathered to him every man in distress, every man who had a creditor, and every man bitter of soul, and he became commander over them; and there were with him about four hundred men.

• 1 Kings 8:31

  If a man sins against his neighbor, and he lays on him an imprecation to make him swear, and the imprecation comes before your altar in this house,

• Psalms 89:22

  The enemy will not take him by surprise, and the son of injustice will not afflict him.

• Isaiah 24:2

  And it will be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the one who owes him.