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usury

Meaning of “usury”

Interest, increase, or an added return charged or received upon a loan.

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24 occurrences17 verses11 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 22:25

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Jeremiah 15:10
¶ 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.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 15:10 · retained source text

¶ Woe is mee, my mother, that that thou hast borne me a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth: I haue neither lent on vsurie, nor men haue lent to me on vsurie, yet euery one of them doeth curse me.

1611 marginal noteIob 3.1. &c, cha.20.15.

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