tar.bit denotes an added financial amount mentioned alongside interest in lending, profit-taking, and increased substance.

The occurrences consistently place the term in financial clauses alongside interest: it is something taken in lending, avoided in just dealings, and associated with increasing one’s substance.

1. Added amount in interest-bearing dealings · dominant

   In Ezekiel 18:8, Ezekiel 18:13, and Ezekiel 18:17, the noun occurs in clauses about not taking, or taking, interest and profit. Leviticus 25:36 prohibits taking interest or increment from a brother, while Ezekiel 22:12 connects taking interest and increase with oppression; Proverbs 28:8 places it in the multiplication of substance.

   Ezekiel 18:8Ezekiel 18:13Ezekiel 18:17Ezekiel 22:12Leviticus 25:36Proverbs 28:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the relevant clauses with “profit,” “increase,” and “increment,” usually alongside “interest.” These renderings show the clauses’ shared financial context rather than assigning a fixed English equivalent to each occurrence.