אָרַשׂʼâras
betroth
Pronunciation: aw-ras' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H781
Meanings
Pi`el: betroth (Deuteronomy 20:7; 2 Samuel 3:14; Hosea 2:21)
Pu`al: be betrothed (Exodus 22:15; Deuteronomy 22:28; Deuteronomy 22:23)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 22:16 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to anyone and has sex with her, he must pay the customary bride price and marry her.
- Deuteronomy 20:7 Has anyone here just become engaged to a woman but not yet married her? Well, you may go home and get married! You might die in the battle, and someone else would marry her.’
- Deuteronomy 22:23 “Suppose a man meets a young woman, a virgin who is engaged to be married, and he has sexual intercourse with her. If this happens within a town,
- Deuteronomy 22:25 “But if the man meets the engaged woman out in the country, and he rapes her, then only the man must die.
- Deuteronomy 22:27 Since the man raped her out in the country, it must be assumed that she screamed, but there was no one to rescue her.
- Deuteronomy 22:28 “Suppose a man has intercourse with a young woman who is a virgin but is not engaged to be married. If they are discovered,
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).