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אָרַשׂ

ʼâras · H781 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to contract in marriage, to betrothe

    Action by which a man makes a marriage contract by means of the payment of a bride-price with the family of a woman, which is usually done before the man takes the woman to live with him

    Examples

    Exodus 22:16 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and sleeps with her, he must pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

How it’s used In 5 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

9 occurrences in 4 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

5 occurrences in 2 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 5 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

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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In the other Testament 1 word
μνηστεύω mnēsteúō · G3423 · to be engaged, to be promised in marriage
Greek μνηστεύω directly renders Hebrew אָרַשׂ as the standard translation equivalent for the formal betrothal act in both testaments, preserving the legal-contractual sense of establishing a marriage commitment prior to consummation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Associate002003002002
אָרַשׂ means to betroth or espouse, the legal bond joining a man and woman before marriage, as in the laws addressing a betrothed woman's protection.
Word family 2 words

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

אָרַשׂʼâras · H781אֲרֶשֶׁת ʼăresheth · H782 · request · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H781. aras [אָרַשׂ] verb betroth (Mishna ארס, Phoenician ארש in proper name, LagSem i. 50…
H781. aras
[אָרַשׂ] verb betroth (Mishna ארס, Phoenician ארש in proper name, LagSem i. 50 connects with Arabic a fine, literally pay the price, & so gain the right of possession; compare Aramaic אָרִיס one who farms land; Assyrian mirsu, tribute, ZehnpfBAS i. 518) — only
Pi`el Pu`al; Pi`el Perfect3masculine singular אֵרֵשׂ Deu 20:7; אֵרַשְׂתִּי 2Sa 3:14; suffix אֵרַשְׂתִּיךְ Hos 2:21 (twice in verse); Hos 2:22; Imperfect2masculine singular תְּאָרֵשׂ Deu 28:30; — betroth (subject man) object woman, אִשָּׁה Deu 20:7; Deu 28:30; followed by ב of price paid to father & ל of husband 2Sa 3:14; ב of gift to bride & ל of husband Hos 2:21; Hos 2:22, where figurative of Yahweh's covenant mercy to Israel.
Pu`al Perfect3feminine singular אֹרָ֑שָׂה be betrothed, with לֹא, subject בְּתוּלָה Exo 22:15; Deu 22:28 (בתולה נער); Participle feminine מְאֹרָשָׂה Deu 22:23, where affirmed of בתולה נער (followed by ל of husband) Deu 22:25; Deu 22:27 (in both subject הַנַּעֲרָ֯).
ארשׁ (to desire, request, Assyrian êrêšu DlPr 55).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Marry11 occurrences

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

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