Neh 5:4 | KD | STEP | Others, again, complained: We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute upon our fields and vineyards. לוה means to be dependent, nexum esse , and transitively to make dependent, like מלא, to be full, and to make full: We have made our fields and our vineyards answerable for money for the king’s tribute (Bertheau), i.e., we have borrowed money upon our fields for ... This they could only do by pledging the crops of these lands, or at least such a portion of their crops as might equal the sum borrowed; comp. the law, -17.

‏ Nehemiah 5:4

Others, again, complained: We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute upon our fields and vineyards. לוה means to be dependent, nexum esse, and transitively to make dependent, like מלא, to be full, and to make full: We have made our fields and our vineyards answerable for money for the king’s tribute (Bertheau), i.e., we have borrowed money upon our fields for ... This they could only do by pledging the crops of these lands, or at least such a portion of their crops as might equal the sum borrowed; comp. the law, Lev 25:14-17.