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title: נְשִׁי — debt · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נְשִׁי (5386), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: debt. BDB 1906: debt. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נְשִׁי

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«נְשִׁי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **debt** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5386 · **BDB:** נְשִׁי

### Glosses

debt (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

debt [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5386/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

debt [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5386/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] debt;—only sf. 2 fs. נשׁיכי Kt, נַשְׁיֵךְ Qr 2 K 4:7 (so Baer; van d. H. Ginsb נִשְׁיֵךְ) pay (שַׁלְּמִי) thy debt.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נְשִׁי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5386/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 4:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.7/)

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וַתָּבֹ֗א וַתַּגֵּד֙ לְאִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לְכִי֙ מִכְרִ֣י אֶת־הַשֶּׁ֔מֶן וְשַׁלְּמִ֖י אֶת־נִשְׁיֵ֑ךְ וְאַ֣תְּ וּבָנַ֔יִךְ תִֽחְיִ֖י בַּנּוֹתָֽר׃פ

*Word for word:* and she.came and she.told to the.man of.(the) God and he.said go sell (et) the oil and pay (et) debt your and you and children your you.will.live by the remainder

*JPS 1917:* 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 sons of the rest.'

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