אָרַשׂ
a.ra.s
“to betroth”
Definition
to engage for matrimony
a primitive root;
- to betroth, engage 1a) (Piel) to betroth (man or woman) 1b) (Pual) to be betrothed
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
אָרַשׂ appears 7 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”
Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.”
If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,
But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.
When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.
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