Definition

to lend on interest; by implication, to dun fordebt

Etymology

a primitive root (perhaps identical with H5377 (נָשָׁא), through the idea of imposition);

Word family

• נָשָׁא nâshâʼ

How the KJV renders it

• debt
• exact
• giver of usury

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.