Pledge
עֵרָבוֹןStrong’s H6162aravon (a-ra-von)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aravon is the Hebrew word usually translated “pledge”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?”
Meaning
- Pledge, security
How it's translated
- the pledge 2
- a pledge 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 38:18And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
- Genesis 38:20And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand: but he found her not.
Hebrew dictionary
עֵרָבוֹן aravon · pledge
pledge, security
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pledge” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLEDGE, noun
[Latin plico.]
- Something put in pawn; that which is deposited with another as security for the repayment of money borrowed, or for the performance of some agreement or obligation; a pawn.
- Any thing given or considered as a security for the performance of an act.
- A surety; a hostage.
- In law, a gage or security real or personal, given for the repayment of money.
All definitions and other forms of “pledge”
- In law, bail; surety given for the prosecution of a suit, or for the appearance of a defendant, or for restoring goods taken in distress and replevied.
- A warrant to secure a person from injury in drinking.
PLEDGE, verb transitive
- To deposit in pawn; to deposit or leave in possession of a person something which is to secure the repayment of money borrowed, or the performance of some act. [This word is applied chiefly to the depositing of goods or personal property.
- To give as a warrant or security; as, to pledge one's word or honor; to pledge one's veracity.
- To secure by a pledge
- To invite to drink by accepting the cup or health after another.
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.