נָשָׁה nâshâh — to lend or (by reciprocity) borrow on security or interest
Translated in the KJV as creditor, exact, extortioner, lend, usurer, lend on usury.
a primitive root (rather identical with H5382, in the sense of H5378); to lend or (by reciprocity) borrow on security or interest.
nâshâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 10Perfect (qatal) 2
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the Lord’s release.
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
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 ›