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# עֵרָבוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6162

**pledge** — used 3 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

pledge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6162/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵרָבוֹן: pledge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6162/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] pledge;—נָתַן ע׳ give a pledge Gn 38:17, 18, לָקַח ע׳ v 20 (all J), receive (back) a pledge (when condition is fulfilled).—Jb 17:3 read perhaps עֶרְבֹנִי (for MT עָרְבֵנִי), as obj. of שִׂימָה set my pledge (a surety for me), so Beer Bu al.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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: pledge (2); a pledge (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 38:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.17/#tree)

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אָנֹכִ֛י אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח גְּדִֽי־עִזִּ֖ים מִן־הַצֹּ֑אן וַתֹּ֕אמֶר אִם־תִּתֵּ֥ן עֵרָב֖וֹן עַ֥ד שָׁלְחֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said I I.will.send a.kid of.goats from the flock and she.said if you.will.give a.pledge until you send.\[it\]

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock.' And she said: 'Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?'

[Genesis 38:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.20/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח יְהוּדָ֜ה אֶת־גְּדִ֣י הָֽעִזִּ֗ים בְּיַד֙ רֵעֵ֣הוּ הָֽעֲדֻלָּמִ֔י לָקַ֥חַת הָעֵרָב֖וֹן מִיַּ֣ד הָאִשָּׁ֑ה וְלֹ֖א מְצָאָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent Judah (et) the.kid of the.goats by the.hand his.friend his the Adullamite to take the pledge from the.hand of the.woman and not he found.her

*JPS 1917:* And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand; but he found her not.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6162/): 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).