creditor
part of speech
noun (creditor, creditors)
meaning for a pupil
A person or firm to whom money is owed, who is waiting to be paid back. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah a creditor may not charge interest to a poor Israelite and must cancel debts in the seventh year. Interpretation: Tradition calls this the shemitah release of debts, and reads it as teaching kindness to the poor. Later rabbis made a legal device, the prozbul, to protect lending. In the primary lessons: in stories, the person who lends money and wants it repaid at once
examples
- If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest. (Torah EXO.22.25, JPS 1917) tree →
- And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed. (Torah DEU.15.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? (Prophets ISA.50.1, JPS 1917) tree →
- Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour. (Writings PSA.109.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- The creditor asked for his money. tree →
- The shopkeeper was a creditor of the farmer. tree →
- Every creditor wanted to be paid that day. tree →
note
nothing for maths in ordinary sums; in a money-owed problem the amount owed is what the debtor must pay back to the creditor
In the corpora
- Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you?
- Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.
Trees and pragmatics
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