נָשָׁא nâshâʼ — to lend on interest
Translated in the KJV as × debt, exact, giver of usury.
a primitive root (perhaps identical with H5377, through the idea of imposition); to lend on interest; by implication, to dun for debt.
nâshâʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›