ἈΡΑΒΩΝ, ἀραβων
ARABŌN, arabōn
Sounds Like: ar-ra-BOHN
Translations: pledge, a pledge, earnest, a down payment, security
From the root: ἈΡΑΒΩΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a pledge, a down payment, or earnest money given as security for a future transaction or as a guarantee that a promise will be fulfilled. It signifies a part of a payment or a gift that confirms a larger, future payment or gift. It is often used in the context of a binding agreement or a promise of something to come.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0717 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:114
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 12:221
- Book 2 — 9:213
- Book 4 — 7:161
- Book 5 — 6:229
- Book 9 — 1:7, 5:102
- Book 10 — 1:19
- Book 12 — 8:341
- Book 13 — 7:118, 13:360, 13:374, 13:375, 14:382, 14:384
- Book 14 — 1:14, 1:15, 1:18, 2:20, 2:21, 7:122, 14:370
- Book 15 — 4:92, 5:111, 5:112, 5:116, 5:120, 5:130, 5:149, 6:189, 11:402
- Book 16 — 7:224, 7:225, 9:276, 9:281, 9:284, 9:288, 9:292, 9:294, 9:296, 10:339, 10:348, 10:350, 10:351
- Book 20 — 4:77
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 1:6, 5:6, 5:17, 7:12
- Book Two — 5:4, 5:5
- Book Three — 7:80, 7:131
- Book Five — 6:43
- Book Seven — 6:10
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΡΑΒΩΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΡΑΒΩΝΑ — pledge, a pledge, down payment, earnest, earnest money, security, guarantee
- ΤΟΥἈΡΑΒΩΝ — of the pledge, of the earnest money, of the down payment, of the guarantee
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