Mashsah מַשָּׁא

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Mashsah (Hebrew מַשָּׁא, Strong's H4855) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “interest”. It occurs 3 times in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) lending on interest, usury
1a) in Ne 5:11, the rate of "usury" was only one per cent

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	usury (2)
BSB	usury (2), debt (1)

Every verse with Mashsah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Nehemiah 5:7
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them
Nehemiah 5:10
I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.
Nehemiah 10:31
And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow, and will cancel every debt.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).