Word

עֲבוֹט

ʻăbôwṭ · H5667 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. pledge

    Object taken in pledge for a loan

    Examples

    Deuteronomy 24:10 “When you make your neighbor a loan of any kind, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge.

    Deuteronomy 24:11 “You shall stand outside, and the person to whom you are making the loan shall bring the pledge outside to you.

    Deuteronomy 24:12 “And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
חֲבֹל chăbôl · H2258 · pledge
Hebrew noun meaning pledge or security taken for a loan, directly synonymous with עֲבוֹט in legal contexts regarding debt security
In the other Testament 1 word
ἀῤῥαβών arrhabṓn · G728 · first installment, downpayment, pledge
Greek term for a pledge or earnest money, functioning as a down payment or guarantee given in advance as security, in contrast to the Hebrew term which denotes a pledged item held as collateral
Semantic domains 1 entry
Objects001
A pledge, the item of security a lender takes and holds until a loan is repaid, as repeatedly regulated in the laws protecting a poor borrower's cloak and dignity.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5667. abot עֲבוֺט noun [masculine] pledge, article pledged as security for debt; —…
H5667. abot
עֲבוֺט noun [masculine] pledge, article pledged as security for debt; — absolute ׳ע Deu 24:11, Deu 24:13; suffix עֲבֹטוֺ Deu 24:10 (as accusative of congnate meaning with verb), Deu 24:12.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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