Usury

Exodus 22:25

²⁵ If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

Leviticus 25:35

³⁵ And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

Leviticus 25:36

³⁶ Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

Leviticus 25:37

³⁷ Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

Deuteronomy 23:19

¹⁹ Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

²⁰ Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Nehemiah 5:1

¹ And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Nehemiah 5:2

² For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

Nehemiah 5:3

³ Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

Nehemiah 5:4

⁴ There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

Nehemiah 5:5

⁵ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

Nehemiah 5:6

⁶ And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

Nehemiah 5:7

⁷ Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

Nehemiah 5:8

⁸ And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.

Nehemiah 5:9

⁹ Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

Nehemiah 5:10

¹⁰ I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

Nehemiah 5:11

¹¹ Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.

Nehemiah 5:12

¹² Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.

Nehemiah 5:13

¹³ Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

Psalms 15:5

⁵ He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

Proverbs 28:8

⁸ He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

Isaiah 24:2

² 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.

Jeremiah 15:10

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Ezekiel 18:8

⁸ He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

Ezekiel 18:13

¹³ Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

Ezekiel 18:17

¹⁷ That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

Ezekiel 22:12

¹² In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

Matthew 25:27

²⁷ Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

Luke 19:23

²³ Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?

Strong's Number G5110

Strong's Number:

G5110

Greek:

τόκος

Transliteration:

tokos

Pronunciation:

tok'-os

Part of Speech:

Noun Masculine

Strong's Definition:

from the base of G5088; interest on money loaned (as a produce):--usury.

IPD Definition:

birth
1. the act of bringing forth
2. that which has been brought forth, offspring
interest of money, usury (because it multiplies money, and as it were "breeds")

Strong's Number G5110 Bible Verses

Strong's Number H4855

Strong's Number:

H4855

Hebrew:

מַשָּׁא

Transliteration:

mashsha'

Pronunciation:

mash-shaw'

Part of Speech:

Noun Masculine

Strong's Definition:

from H5383; a loan; by implication, interest on a debt:--exaction, usury.

IPD Definition:

lending on interest, usury
1. in Neh. 5:11, the rate of "usury" was only one per cent

Strong's Number H4855 Bible Verses

Strong's Number H5378

Strong's Number:

H5378

Hebrew:

נָשָׁא

Transliteration:

nasha'

Pronunciation:

naw-shaw'

Part of Speech:

Verb

Strong's Definition:

a primitive root (perhaps identical with H5377, through the idea of imposition); to lend on interest; by implication, to dun for debt:--X debt, exact, giver of usury.

IPD Definition:

to lend on interest or usury, be a creditor
1. (Qal) creditor (participle)
2. (Hiphil) to act as a creditor

Strong's Number H5378 Bible Verses

Strong's Number H5383

Strong's Number:

H5383

Hebrew:

נָשָׁה

Transliteration:

nashah

Pronunciation:

naw-shaw'

Part of Speech:

Verb

Strong's Definition:

a primitive root (rather identical with H5382, in the sense of H5378); to lend or (by reciprocity) borrow on security or interest:--creditor, exact, extortioner, lend, usurer, lend on (taker on) usury.

IPD Definition:

to lend, be a creditor
1. (Qal)
  1. to lend
  2. creditor (participle) (subst)
2. (Hiphil) to lend

Strong's Number H5383 Bible Verses

Strong's Number H5391

Strong's Number:

H5391

Hebrew:

נָשַׁךְ

Transliteration:

nashak

Pronunciation:

naw-shak'

Part of Speech:

Verb

Strong's Definition:

a primitive root; to strike with a sting (as a serpent); figuratively, to oppress with interest on a loan:--bite, lend upon usury.

IPD Definition:

to bite
1. (Qal) to bite
2. (Piel) to bite
to pay, give interest, lend for interest or usury
1. (Qal) to give interest
2. (Hiphil) to make to give interest

Strong's Number H5391 Bible Verses

Strong's Number H5392

Strong's Number:

H5392

Hebrew:

נֶשֶׁךְ

Transliteration:

neshek

Pronunciation:

neh'-shek

Part of Speech:

Noun Masculine

Strong's Definition:

from H5391; interest on a debt:--usury.

IPD Definition:

interest, usury

Strong's Number H5392 Bible Verses

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