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# pledge

verb (pledge, pledges, pledged, pledging); noun (pledge, pledges)

«pledge» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To pledge is to promise firmly, giving your word or faith. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pledge/#m1)
2. A pledge is a solemn promise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pledge/#m2)
3. A pledge is an item left as a security for a debt, or as a sign that you will keep your word. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pledge/#m3)

### In the lessons

in tales a king or a hero makes a pledge, a sworn promise to do or give something; people pledge their faith or word to one another

### Examples

- "I give that pledge," said Iollan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pledge/#x1)
- "We pledge it," said they. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pledge/#x2)
- "I pass it and pledge it," cried the joyful king. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pledge/#x3)
- The children made a pledge to keep the secret. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pledge/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

In the Torah's law a pledge is the item a borrower gives to the lender, and it must be treated kindly towards the poor.

**Interpretation.** Tradition says a lender may not enter the house to take it, and must return a poor man's cloak at night. Taking a mill is forbidden because it takes his food and his life.

### Examples

- And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge; (Torah DEU.24.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x1)
- No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge. (Torah DEU.24.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x2)
- Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee. (Torah DEU.24.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x3)
- They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. (Writings JOB.24.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x4)
- There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor; (Writings JOB.24.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x5)
- For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. (Writings JOB.22.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x6)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pledge» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pledge/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pledge» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pledge.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «pledge» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pledge» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/pledge.html) on Mova free.