pledge
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 →
2) A pledge is a solemn promise. tree →
3) A pledge is an item left as a security for a debt, or as a sign that you will keep your word. tree →
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 →
- 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 →
- 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 →
- They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. (Writings JOB.24.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor; (Writings JOB.24.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. (Writings JOB.22.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- "I give that pledge," said Iollan. tree →
- "We pledge it," said they. tree →
- "I pass it and pledge it," cried the joyful king. tree →
- The children made a pledge to keep the secret. tree →
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;
- No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
- When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
- Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.
- And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;
Trees and pragmatics
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