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# pledge

«pledge» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to promise firmly, giving your word or faith** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (pledge, pledges, pledged, pledging); noun (pledge, pledges)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To pledge is to promise firmly, giving your word or faith. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#m1)

2) A pledge is a solemn promise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#m2)

3) A pledge is an item left as a security for a debt, or as a sign that you will keep your word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah's law a pledge is the item a borrower gives to the lender, and it must be treated kindly towards the poor. Interpretation: Tradition says a lender may not enter the house to take it, and must return a poor man's cloak at night. Taking a mill is forbidden because it takes his food and his life. In the primary lessons: in tales a king or a hero makes a pledge, a sworn promise to do or give something; people pledge their faith or word to one another

### examples

- And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge; (Torah DEU.24.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x1)
- No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge. (Torah DEU.24.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x2)
- Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee. (Torah DEU.24.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x3)
- They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. (Writings JOB.24.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x4)
- There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor; (Writings JOB.24.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x5)
- For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. (Writings JOB.22.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x6)
- "I give that pledge," said Iollan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x7)
- "We pledge it," said they. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x8)
- "I pass it and pledge it," cried the joyful king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x9)
- The children made a pledge to keep the secret. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/#x10)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by that the sun goeth down;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.641/)
- [No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.645/)
- [When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.649/)
- [Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.650/)
- [And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.651/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pledge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.