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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Debt

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Debt

The Mosaic law encouraged the practice of lending (Deuteronomy 15:7; Psalms 37:26; Matthew 5:42); but it forbade the exaction of interest except from foreigners. Usury was strongly condemned (Proverbs 28:8; Ezekiel 18:8, 13, 17; 22:12; Psalms 15:5). On the Sabbatical year all pecuniary obligations were cancelled (Deuteronomy 15:1-11). These regulations prevented the accumulation of debt.


Naves Topical Index
Debt

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Debt

DEBT, noun det. [Latin debitum, contracted.]

1. That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another; as the debts of a bankrupt; the debts of a nobleman. It is a common misfortune or vice to be in debt

When you run in debt you give to another power over your liberty.

2. That which any one is obliged to do or to suffer.

Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt

Hence death is called the debt of nature.

3. In law, an action to recover a debt This is a customary ellipsis. He brought debt instead of an action of debt

4. In scripture, sin; trespass; guilt; crime; that which renders liable to punishment.

Forgive us our debts. Lord's Prayer.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Debted

DEBT'ED, participle passive det'ted. Indebted; obliged to.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Debtee

DEBTEE', noun dettee'. A creditor; one to whom a debt is due.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Debtless

DEBT'LESS, adjective det'less. Free from debt.


Easton's Bible Dictionary
Debtor

Various regulations as to the relation between debtor and creditor are laid down in the Scriptures.

1. The debtor was to deliver up as a pledge to the creditor what he could most easily dispense with (Deuteronomy 24:10, 11).

2. A mill, or millstone, or upper garment, when given as a pledge, could not be kept over night (Exodus 22:26, 27).

3. A debt could not be exacted during the Sabbatic year (Deuteronomy 15:1-15).

For other laws bearing on this relation see Leviticus 25:14, 32, 39; Matthew 18:25, 34.

4. A surety was liable in the same way as the original debtor (Proverbs 11:15; 17:18).


Naves Topical Index
Debtor

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Debtor

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Debtor

DEBT'OR, noun det'tor.

1. The person who owes another either money, goods or services.

In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor.

2. One who is under obligation to do something.

I am debtor to the Greeks and barbarians. Rom. I.

He is a debtor to do the whole law. Galatians 5:3.

3. The side of an account in which debts are charged.