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# pledged

«pledged» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **promised firmly or given as security for a debt** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (past tense and past participle of pledge: pledge, pledges, pledged, pledging)

### meaning for a pupil

Pledged means promised firmly or given as security for a debt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledged/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah a pledge is an item a borrower leaves with a lender as a guarantee. The law says it must be treated gently. Interpretation: The law says a poor person's cloak taken as a pledge must be returned by sunset. Tradition sees this as protecting human dignity. In the primary lessons: in stories people who have given their word have pledged their faith; a poor man may have pledged his cottage to a neighbour as a debt

### examples

- They pledged their faith that they would not harm her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledged/#x1)
- He pledged his cottage to a neighbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledged/#x2)
- We pledged our help to the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pledged/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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