mash.sah denotes the charge attached to lending, addressed in Nehemiah’s rebuke and appeal to stop it.

The attested use concerns a charge connected with lending: Nehemiah 5:7 rebukes lending to fellow Israelites, and Nehemiah 5:10 appeals for that charge to be left behind. Nehemiah 10:32 uses the construct form in a command to give a yearly third of a shekel, but the translation does not isolate the term’s contribution there.

1. Charge imposed in lending · dominant

   In Nehemiah 5:7, the masculine singular absolute form occurs in the rebuke addressed to nobles and rulers; the APB renders the accusation, “You lend at interest, each man to his brother.” In Nehemiah 5:10, the same absolute form stands in an appeal after lending silver and grain; the APB renders, “Please leave this interest.”

   Nehemiah 5:7Nehemiah 5:10
2. Charge in a yearly giving command · occasional

   In Nehemiah 10:32, the masculine singular construct form occurs in a commandment requiring a yearly third of a shekel for the house of God; the APB renders the verse as an obligation to give, without isolating this term’s specific contribution.

   Nehemiah 10:32

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “interest” in Nehemiah 5:7 and Nehemiah 5:10. In Nehemiah 10:32 it presents a yearly giving requirement and does not identify a specific English equivalent for the term.