22 occurrences

'Debt' in the Bible

If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his neighbour,

And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family.

A man of another nation may be forced to make payment of his debt, but if your brother has anything of yours, let it go;

No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.

If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt;

And everyone who was in trouble, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, came together to him, and he became captain over them: about four hundred men were joined to him.

Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.

And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

I keep the memory of my debt to you, O God; I will give you the offerings of praise.

I will come into your house with burned offerings, I will make payment of my debt to you,

Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.

Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,

Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him.

By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
חוב 
Chowb 
Usage: 1

משּׁאה 
Mashsha'ah 
Usage: 2

נשׁא 
Nasha' 
Usage: 4

נשׁי 
N@shiy 
Usage: 1

ὀφειλέτης 
Opheiletes 
Usage: 4

ὀφειλή 
Opheile 
Usage: 1

ὀφείλημα 
Opheilema 
Usage: 1

ὀφείλω ὀφειλέω 
Opheilo 
ought , owe , be bound , be duty , be a debtor , be guilty , be indebted ,
Usage: 24

χρεωφειλέτης 
Chreopheiletes 
Usage: 0

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain