Quick Definition
to lend
Strong's Definition
to pawn; causatively, to lend (on security); figuratively, to entangle
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: borrow, break (ranks), fetch (a pledge), lend, [idiom] surely.
TWOT Reference: 1555
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עָבַט (a.vat) — to lend. 1) to take a pledge, give a pledge (for a debt) 1a) (Qal) to take a pledge, give a pledge (for a debt) 1b)(Piel) to interchange 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to give a pledge
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · עֲבֹוט · עַבְטִיט
Possess | verb qal
to borrow = action by which humans borrow money or goods from other humans with a designated pledge as guarantee; ≈ the need to do this is associated with poverty
Possess | verb qal
Collocation: עבט עֲבֹוט
to seize a pledge = action by which humans take an object as a pledge for a loan; ≈ which is regarded as a shameful thing to do, as the person who borrows has the right to designate the pledge himself
verb
Move | verb pi | ≠ הלך בְּדֶרֶךְ
Collocation: עבט אֹרַח
to swerve from (one's) path = action by which swarms of locusts deviate from the course they have taken
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[עָבַט] vb. denom. take or give a pledge Qal to take possession of a thing pledged
Hiph. and thou shalt cause many nations to give pledges
Pi. hardly makes sense (lend on pledge = interchange ?)
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