Strong H3867H3867Bלָוָה
to borrow
One of the 2 senses of Strong H3867
- Transliteration
- lâvâh
- Pronunciation
- law-vaw'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
1) to borrow, lend
1a) (Qal) to borrow
1b) (Hiphil) to cause to borrow, lend to
1a) (Qal) to borrow
1b) (Hiphil) to cause to borrow, lend to
General definition
A primitive root; properly to {twine} that {is} (by implication) to {unite} to remain; also to borrow (as a form of obligation) or (causatively) to lend: - abide {with} borrow ({-er}) {cleave} join ({self}) lend (-er).
In the Bible
Strong H3867B appears in 10 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- lend3
- lendeth3
- borrow2
- borrower2
- lender2
- borroweth1
First verses
- Exodus 22:25If 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.
- Deuteronomy 28:12The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
- Deuteronomy 28:44He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
- Nehemiah 5:4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
- Psalms 37:21The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
- Psalms 37:26He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
- Psalms 112:5A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
- Proverbs 19:17He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
- Proverbs 22:7The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
- Isaiah 24:2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.