nasha · lend; creditor

What it means

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

Lend; one who lends and presses for payment, a creditor.

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. To lend money to someone and demand it back; the one who does so is the creditor.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• are lending ×4
• creditor ×4
• lent ×3
• creditors ×1
• you lend ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• 2 Kings×1
• Nehemiah×3
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2

• Exodus 22:25

  If you lend silver to my people, to the poor with you, you shall not be to him like a creditor; you shall not lay interest on him.

• Deuteronomy 15:2

  And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release the loan of his hand that he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not press his neighbor or his brother, because a release to YHWH has been proclaimed.

• Deuteronomy 24:10

  When you lend your neighbor a loan of any kind, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge.

• Deuteronomy 24:11

  You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you are lending shall bring the pledge outside to you.

• 2 Kings 4:1

  A woman, one of the wives of the sons of the prophets, cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared YHWH; and the creditor has come to take my two children for himself as slaves.”

• Nehemiah 5:7

  My heart deliberated within me, and I contended with the nobles and with the officials and said to them, “You are lending at interest, each to his brother.” And I convened against them a great assembly,

• Nehemiah 5:10

  I too, my brothers, and my young men are lending them silver and grain. Let us give up, please, this loan at interest.

• Nehemiah 5:11

  Return, please, to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, and the hundredth of the silver, the grain, the new wine, and the oil that you are lending them.”

• Psalms 109:11

  Let the creditor lay snares for all that he has, and let strangers plunder his toil.

• 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.

• Isaiah 50:1

  Thus says YHWH: “Where is the document of divorce of your mother, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I sold you? Look, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

• Jeremiah 15:10

  Woe to me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of dispute and a man of contention to all the land! I have not lent, nor have they lent to me, yet all of them curse me.

And 1 more times.