Thou shalt not borrow?

Throughout 2017 i heard the words borrow and loan. And i will not at this junction inform you where I heard the mentioned words. What i can inform you is the following:
No place and in no dictionary I have ever laid eyes upon did the meaning of said words say a person is to keep an item.
In fact, i do believe, that to keep a loaned or borrowed item is reflective of that as to theft or stealing. And if my brain recalls does not God Himself frown on individuals stealing from each other!?
Oh you may be saying, or thinking, " but I'm not under the law but grace." But i say that does not give you a license to do, or take what you please. Example, while you may indeed be under grace it does not give you the license to shoplift, not stop at stop signs it stop lights. In fact did you know that in some countries if your caught stealing what the punishment is? In some countries the chop off your hand or worse.

Why do i bring this subject to your attention?
Lets say, as an example, you had only one SD memory card for your camera, ok? And you loaned it to someone. But in the course of days, months or years it was never returned. At what stage is such a cause classified as theft? 30 days? 60 or even 90 days?

As a professing Christian i hear the phrase " let me borrow if from you" but months or years later its "lost" What does that ell you about the person who borrowed the item? Would you trust him/her again, really would you?

Because I've witnessed things myself i try to be careful what i loan out to others.
Here is a list what not to loan out;
A.  Laptops, computers
B.  Smartphones, cellphones
C.  SD, flash or thumb drives
D.  VHS,DVD and or Blueray movies
E.   Books and or reading material

So how do you put a stop to this madness? Tell the person politely either no or i can't. If the person pushes you then a red flag ought to go up right away. Of course they will say, "ahh what's it going to hurt?" And that ought to be the end of the story.
And if you do loan stuff out and its not returned then you know "the rest of the story" as the late Paul Harvey once said

To loan, or to borrow, without the items return, is still theft regardless who borrows.

Ref:

Loan

—noun

the act of lending; a grant of thetemporary use of something: theloan of a book.

something lent or furnished oncondition of being returned, especially a sum of money lent atinterest: a $1000 loan at 10 percentinterest.

loanword.

—verb (used with object)

to make a loan of; lend: Will you loanme your umbrella?

to lend (money) at interest.

—verb (used without object)

to make a loan or loans; lend.

—Idioms

on loan,

borrowed for temporary use: How many books can I have onloan from the library at onetime?

temporarily provided orreleased by one's regularemployer, superior, or owner foruse by another: Our best actor ison loan to another movie studiofor two films.

Origin: 1150–1200; Middle English lon(e), lan(e) (noun), Old English lān < Old Norse lān; replacing its cognate, Old English lǣnloan, grant, cognate with Dutch leen loan, German Leh(e)n fief; cf. lend

Ref #2

Borrow

verb (used with object)

1. to take or obtain with the promise toreturn the same or an equivalent: Ourneighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
2. to use, appropriate, or introduce fromanother source or from a foreignsource: to borrow an idea from theopposition; to borrow a word fromFrench.
3. Arithmetic. (in subtraction) to takefrom one denomination and add tothe next lower.

—verb (used without object)

4. to borrow something: Don't borrowunless you intend to repay.
5. Nautical.
   1. to sail close to the wind; luff.
   2. to sail close to the shore.
6. Golf. to putt on other than a directline from the lie of the ball to thehole, to compensate for the incline orroll of the green.

—Idioms

7. borrow trouble, to do somethingthat is unnecessary and may causefuture harm or inconvenience.

Origin: before 900; Middle English borowen, Old English borgian to borrow, lend, derivative of borg a pledge; akin to Dutch borg a pledge, borgen to charge, give credit, German Borg credit, borgen to take on credit