What is lending?

Famous quotes containing the word lending:

    “If there is among you anyone in need, a member of your community in any of your towns within the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your needy neighbor. You should rather open your hand, willingly lending enough to meet the need, whatever it may be.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 15:7,8.

    “And lending it one mental fillip the more, the fact that all these people were inwardly attacked by well-nigh resistless decay, and that most of them were feverish.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)