Exodus 22:25

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־חָבֹ֥ל תַּחְבֹּ֖ל שַׂלְמַ֣ת רֵעֶ֑ךָ עַד־בֹּ֥א הַשֶּׁ֖מֶשׁ תְּשִׁיבֶ֥נּוּ לֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

If ḥābōl taḥbōl śalmat rēʿekā, until bōʾ the šemeš tĕšîbennû to him.

Grammar Details

• *ḥābōl taḥbōl*: qal infinitive absolute + qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular, 'you surely take as pledge'
• *śalmat*: feminine singular construct, 'garment of'
• *rēʿekā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix, 'your neighbor'
• *bōʾ*: qal infinitive construct, 'coming of'
• *šemeš*: definite feminine singular noun, 'sun'
• *tĕšîbennû*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix, 'you shall return it'

Word Meanings

• *ḥābōl taḥbōl*: surely take as pledge/certainly take in pledge
• *śalmat*: garment/cloak/outer garment

Referenced Verses

• Lev 25:35-37 : 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. 36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
• Ps 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.
• Deut 23:19-20 : 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.
• Ezek 18:8 : 8 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
• Prov 28:8 : 8 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
• Neh 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.
• Ezek 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.
• Ezek 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.
• Matt 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?
• Ezek 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.
• Neh 5:10-11 : 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. 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.
• Jer 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.
• 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 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.
• 2 Kgs 4:7 : 7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
• Neh 5:2-5 : 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. 3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. 4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards. 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.