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Lexicon :: Strong's H4855 - maššā'

Aa
מַשָּׁא
Transliteration
maššā'
Pronunciation
mash-shaw'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1424a

Strong’s Definitions

מַשָּׁא mashshâʼ, mash-shaw'; from H5383; a loan; by implication, interest on a debt:—exaction, usury.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's H4855 in the following manner: usury (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's H4855 in the following manner: usury (2x).
  1. lending on interest, usury

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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַשָּׁא mashshâʼ, mash-shaw'; from H5383; a loan; by implication, interest on a debt:—exaction, usury.
STRONGS H4855: Abbreviations
מַשָּׁא noun masculineNehemiah 5:10 lending on interest, or usury; — Nehemiah 5:7 (as accusative of congnate meaning with verb), Nehemiah 5:10.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Nehemiah

5:7; 5:10; 5:10

H4855

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4855 matches the Hebrew מַשָּׁא (maššā'),
which occurs 3 times in 3 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:7 - So I thought H4427 H3820 it over H4427 and contended H7378 with the nobles H2715 and the leading H5461 people H5461, and said H559 to them, “You are lending H5377 at interest H4855, each H376 to his brother H251!” Therefore, I held H5414 a great H1419 assembly H6952 against H5921 them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:10 - “And likewise H1571 I, my brothers H251, and my servants H5288 are lending H5383 them money H3701 and grain H1715. Please H4994, let’s [fn]do H5800 without H5800 this H2088 interest H4855.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:31 - As for the peoples H5971 of the land H776 who bring H935 wares H4728 or any H3605 grain H7668 on the Sabbath H7676 day H3117 to sell H4376, we will not [fn]buy H3947 from them on the Sabbath H7676 or on any holy H6944 day H3117; and we will forgo H5203 the crops of the seventh H7637 year H8141 and [fn]every H3605 debt H4855.
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