Debt
עַבְטִיטStrong’s H5671avtit (av-tit)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Avtit is the Hebrew word usually translated “pledge”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!”
Meaning
- Weight of pledges, heavy debts
How it's translated
- pledge 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Habakkuk 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עַבְטִיט avtit · debt
weight of pledges, heavy debts
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “debt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEBT, noun
det. [Latin debitum, contracted.]
- That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another; as the debts of a bankrupt; the debts of a nobleman.
- That which any one is obliged to do or to suffer.
- In law, an action to recover a debt This is a customary ellipsis.
- In scripture, sin; trespass; guilt; crime; that which renders liable to punishment.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.