Tokos means “usury” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5110 — nud (“flee”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5110 τόκος (tokos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. tokos (tok'-os) n. 1. interest on money loaned (as a produce) [from the base of G5088] It has 18 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include money. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
tokos (tok'-os) n. 1. interest on money loaned (as a produce) [from the base of G5088] KJV: usury Root(s): G5088
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5110. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
interest
Usage: τόκος, -ου, ὁ (τίκτω), [in LXX for נֶשֶׁךְ, etc. ;] __(a) a bringing forth, birth; __(b) offspring. Metaphorical, of the produce of money lent out, interest, usury (cf. Merch. of Venice, I, iii, "a breed of barren metal "): Mat.25:27, Luk.19:23 (Soph., Plat., al.).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tokos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5110 (τόκος) appears 19 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
15 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And if thou shouldest lend money to thy poor brother who is by thee, thou shalt not be hard upon him, thou shalt not exact usury of him.
Thou shalt not receive from him interest, nor increase: and thou shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord: and thy brother shall live with thee.
Thou shalt not lend thy money to him at interest, and thou shalt not lend thy meat to him to be returned with increase.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
A man, therefore, who regulates his course by the law, even if he be a lover of money, straightaway puts force upon his own disposition; lending to the needy without interest, and canceling the debt of the incoming Sabbath.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5110.
And if thou shouldest lend money to thy poor brother who is by thee, thou shalt not be hard upon him, thou shalt not exact usury of him.
Thou shalt not receive from him interest, nor increase: and thou shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord: and thy brother shall live with thee.
Thou shalt not lend thy money to him at interest, and thou shalt not lend thy meat to him to be returned with increase.
Thou shalt not lend to thy brother on usury of silver, or usury of meat, or usury of anything which thou mayest lend out.
And she came and told the man of God: and Elisha said, Go, and sell the oil, and thou shalt pay thy debts, and thou and thy sons shall live of the remaining oil.
He has not lent his money on usury, And has not received bribes against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.
And usury and craft have not failed from its streets.
He shall redeem their souls from usury and injustice: And their name shall be precious before him.
There is usury upon usury, and deceit upon deceit: they would not know me, saith the Lord.
and shall not lend his money upon usury, and shall not receive usurious increase, and shall turn back his hand from injustice, shall execute righteous judgment between a man and his neighbor,
has lent upon usury, and taken usurious increase; he shall by no means live: he has wrought all these iniquities; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
and has turned back his hand from unrighteousness, has not received interest or usurious increase, has wrought righteousness, and walked in mine ordinances; he shall not die for the iniquities of his father, he shall surely live.
In thee they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in thee interest and usurious increase; and by oppression thou hast brought thy wickedness to the full, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord.
Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
A man, therefore, who regulates his course by the law, even if he be a lover of money, straightaway puts force upon his own disposition; lending to the needy without interest, and canceling the debt of the incoming Sabbath.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5110, grouped by book.
Tokos (Strong's G5110) is a Greek word most simply glossed "usury". tokos (tok'-os) n. 1. interest on money loaned (as a produce) [from the base of G5088]
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's G5110 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5110 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as money. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 15 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5110, with linked reader references where each row is available.