ἐνεχυράζω
take a pledge
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐνεχυράζω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 22:25 ἐνεχυράζω And if you should lend money to your poor brother who is by you, you shall not be hard upon him you shall not exact usury of him.
- Deuteronomy 24:6 ἐνεχυράζω the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord your God, and you⌃ shall not defile the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit.
- Deuteronomy 24:6 ἐνεχυράζω the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord your God, and you⌃ shall not defile the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit.
- Deuteronomy 24:17 ἐνεχυράζω You shall pay him his wages the same day, the sun shall not go down upon it, because he is poor and he trusts in it; and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and it shall be sin in you.
- Job 22:6 ἐνεχυράζω And you have taken security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked.
- Job 24:3 ἐνεχυράζω They have led away, the ass of the fatherless, and taken the widow's ox for a pledge.
- Job 34:31 ἐνεχυράζω For there is one that says to the Mighty One, I have received blessings; I will not take a pledge:
- Ezekiel 18:16 ἐνεχυράζω and has not oppressed a man, and has not retained the pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has clothed the naked,
About this word
About this word
ἐνεχυράζω (enechyrázō), “take a pledge,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 8 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →