עֲבוֹט
pledge
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (50%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 2 times (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5667 appears — 4 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 4 verses
- Deuteronomy 24:10 עֲבֹטֽ/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
- Deuteronomy 24:11 הַ/עֲב֖וֹט ptcl def.art + n c ms You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.
- Deuteronomy 24:12 בַּ/עֲבֹטֽ/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
- Deuteronomy 24:13 הַ/עֲבוֹט֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
About this entry
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עבוט — transliterated ʻăbôwṭ — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “pledge.” A scarce word — 4 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Deuteronomy (100% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is Deuteronomy 24:10. Sharing its root, it stands alongside עבט and עבטיט. See the sense tree, 4-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5667 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 4 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Pledge 4×
- American Standard Version: Pledge 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Security 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pledge 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5667 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5667 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5667 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5667 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- pledge, a thing given as security, article pledged as security for debt
Word origin
עֲבוֹט n.[m.] pledge, article pledged as security for debt
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עבט (ʻâbaṭ) (H5670) — to pledge.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עֲבוֹט
- [fastening; cmp. חֲזָקָה,]
- 1. pledge, security. B. Mets. 114ᵇ (expl. Deut. XXIV, 12) לא תשכב ועֲבוֹטוֹ אצלך thou must not go to bed with his pledge with thee.—2) = עָבִיט saddle, saddle-bag. [Tosef. Maasr. III, 13, v. עָבִיט.]—Pl. עֲבוֹטוֹת saddle cushions, rugs &c., baggage. Tanḥ. Emor, ed. Bub. 26, note 188 אתה יודע שאין לי זהב א"ל ותן לי ע׳ נתן לו טפיטוס וכ׳ thou knowest that I have no gold. Said he to him, then give me the baggage, and he gave him a rug and other garments that he had robbed him of; ib. תן לי אותן ע׳ שנטלת ממני give me that baggage which thou hast taken from me; נתן לו אותו זהב ואותן ע׳ מקצת he gave him that gold (of which he had robbed him) and the baggage, but only a part thereof; Tanḥ. Emor 18 עֲבִיטוֹת. e.g. Deuteronomy 24:12
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H5667 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַּ/עֲבֹטֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 24:12 | 1 |
| הַ/עֲב֖וֹט | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 24:11 | 1 |
| הַ/עֲבוֹט֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 24:13 | 1 |
| עֲבֹטֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 24:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5667, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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