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 →

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 →
• He pledged his cottage to a neighbour. tree →
• We pledged our help to the school. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pledged» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.