Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6162
עֲרָבוֹן
arabonar-aw-bone'
pledge
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻărâbôwn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6162is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6162
a pawn (given as security)
The King James renders it: pledge.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
arabon is rendered "pledge". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 38:17“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
Genesis 38:17עֵרָב֖וֹן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the pledge2
- a pledge1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הָֽעֵרָבוֹן֮1
- הָעֵרָב֖וֹן1
- עֵרָב֖וֹן1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
Genesis
three uses
“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
- עֵרָב֖וֹןeravonnoun · masculine singulartagged: a pledge
“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
- הָֽעֵרָבוֹן֮haeravonthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pledge
Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.
- הָעֵרָב֖וֹןhaeravonthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pledge
The letters
Gematria 328· 978 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.