עֲרָבוֹןʻărâbôwn
pledge (Genesis 38:17; Genesis 38:18; Genesis 38:20; Job 17:3)
Pronunciation: ar-aw-bone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6162
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 38:17 “I’ll send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah promised. “But what will you give me to guarantee that you will send the goat?” she asked.
- Genesis 38:18 “What kind of guarantee do you want?” he replied. She answered, “Leave me your identification seal and its cord and the walking stick you are carrying.” So Judah gave them to her. Then he had intercourse with her, and she became pregnant.
- Genesis 38:20 Later Judah asked his friend Hirah the Adullamite to take the young goat to the woman and to pick up the things he had given her as his guarantee. But Hirah couldn’t find her.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).