- תַּרְבִּית
- תַּרְבִּיתf. (b. h.; רָבָה) increase, profit, interest. B. Mete. V, 1 איזהו ת׳ what kind of interest is called tarbith?, v. רָבָה. Ib. 60b ותיסברא דאיכא נשך בלא ת׳ am I to understand that there may be neshekh (receiving more than loaned) without tarbith (profit)? Ib. נשך איכא … ות׳ ליכאוכ׳ in such a case there is neshekh …, but no tarbith, because he has no profit, having loaned him a Danḳa and received a Danḳa; a. fr.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.