tokos is the additional amount collected when money placed with lenders is returned.

The term denotes the added return collected with money that had been placed with others: both verses contrast neglected money with its return together with an additional amount.

1. Additional return on deposited money · dominant

   In Luke 19:23, the dative singular masculine form occurs in the statement that money could have been put on a table and collected on the speaker's return; the APB renders the clause "I would have collected it with interest." In Matthew 25:27, the same form occurs where money is given to money lenders and then received back on return; the APB renders this "I would have received back what is mine with interest."

   Luke 19:23Matthew 25:27

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across both verses, the APB presents the added return as "with interest." This rendering confirms the clause-level presentation rather than isolating a precise English equivalent.