noun · masculine

tokos

Greekτόκος (tokos)

Strong’sG5110

interest, usury

stem tok-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

interest2×

What it means

τόκος, -ου, ὁ

(< τίκτω), [in LXX for נֶשֶׁךְ, etc.;]

(a) a bringing forth, birth;

(b) offspring. Metaph., of the produce of money lent out, interest, usury (cf. Merch. of Venice, I, iii, "a breed of barren metal "): Mt 25:27, Lk 19:23 (Soph., Plat., al.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5110 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidtok'-os

interest on money loaned (as a produce)

Fromfrom the base of G5088;

King Jamesusury.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	tokos	tokois
object accusative	tokon	tokoin
direct address vocative	tokor	tokoir
of, belonging to genitive	tokou	tokoiu
to, for dative	toko2×τόκῳ	tokoi

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

tokstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

toko is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

toko“interest”to, fordative singular2×

Matthew 25:27“interest”date sin oun ballara teim argurieim mu toi trapezitoi, kai ercharatos mis komizema an tem ēmem sun toko.Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received it back with interest.

Luke 19:23“interest”kai dia tinem ouk dōasa mu tem arguriem epi trapezan? kamis ercharatos sun toko an autem prassama.Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?’