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# creditor

«creditor» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **owed, who is waiting to be paid back** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (creditor, creditors)

### meaning for a pupil

A person or firm to whom money is owed, who is waiting to be paid back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creditor/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah a creditor may not charge interest to a poor Israelite and must cancel debts in the seventh year. Interpretation: Tradition calls this the shemitah release of debts, and reads it as teaching kindness to the poor. Later rabbis made a legal device, the prozbul, to protect lending. In the primary lessons: in stories, the person who lends money and wants it repaid at once

### examples

- If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest. (Torah EXO.22.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creditor/#x1)
- And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed. (Torah DEU.15.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creditor/#x2)
- Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? (Prophets ISA.50.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creditor/#x3)
- Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour. (Writings PSA.109.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creditor/#x4)
- The creditor asked for his money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creditor/#x5)
- The shopkeeper was a creditor of the farmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creditor/#x6)
- Every creditor wanted to be paid that day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creditor/#x7)

### note

nothing for maths in ordinary sums; in a money-owed problem the amount owed is what the debtor must pay back to the creditor

### In the corpora

- [Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1114/)
- [Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2025/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «creditor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creditor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.