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# אָרַשׂ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H781

**betroth** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

betroth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/781/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָרַשׂ: vb. betroth Pi. Pu. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/781/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. betroth (Mish. ארס, Ph. ארש in n.pr., LagSem i. 50 connects with Arabic أَرْشٌ a fine, lit. pay the price, & so gain the right of possession; cf. Aramaic אָרִיס one who farms land; Assyrian mirsu, tribute, Zehnpf BAS i. 518)—only Pi. Pu.; Pf. 3 ms. אֵרַשׂ Dt 20:7; אֵרַשְׂתִּי 2 S 3:14; sf. אֵרַשְׂתִּיךְ Ho 2:21(×2), 22; Impf. 2 ms. תְּאָרֵשׂ Dt 28:30;—betroth (subj. man) obj. woman, אִשָּׁה Dt 20:7; 28:30; sq. ב of price paid to father & ל of husband 2 S 3:14; ב of gift to bride & ל of husband Ho 2:21, 22, where fig. of Yahweh’s covenant mercy to Israel. Pf. 3 fs. אֹרָ֑שָׂה be betrothed, c. לֹא, subj. בְּתוּלָה Ex 22:15 Dt 22:28 (נער בתולה); Pt. f. מְאֹרָשָׂה Dt 22:23, where affirmed of נער בתולה (sq. ל of husband) v 25, 27 (in both subj. הַנַּעֲרָ֯).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I (3); betrothed (3); I betrothed (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 2:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.22/#tree)

וְאֵרַשְׂתִּ֥יךְ לִ֖י בֶּאֱמוּנָ֑ה וְיָדַ֖עַתְּ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and I will.betroth.you to myself in faithfulness and you.will.know (et) Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know the LORD.

[Deuteronomy 22:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.22.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.22.27/#tree)

כִּ֥י בַשָּׂדֶ֖ה מְצָאָ֑הּ צָעֲקָ֗ה הַֽנַּעֲרָה֙ הַמְאֹ֣רָשָׂ֔ה וְאֵ֥ין מוֹשִׁ֖יעַ לָֽהּ׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) in the.open country he found.her she.cried.for.help the.young woman (the) betrothed and there.\[was\].not a.deliverer for her

*JPS 1917:* For he found her in the field; the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/781.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/781/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).