Nasah נָשָׁא

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Nasah (Hebrew נָשָׁא, Strong's H5378) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to exact”. It occurs 3 times in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to lend on interest or usury, be a creditor
1a) (Qal) creditor (participle)
1b) (Hiphil) to act as a creditor

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

KJV	exact (2), debt (1), usury (1)
BSB	indebted (1), is required (1), are exacting (1), creditor (1)

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

1 Samuel 22:2
And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.

1 Kings 8:31
If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,

Isaiah 24:2
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

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).