728. arrabón
Berean Strong's Lexicon
arrabón: Pledge, Guarantee, Deposit

Original Word: ἀρραβών
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: arrabón
Pronunciation: ar-hrab-OWN
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-hrab-ohn')
Definition: Pledge, Guarantee, Deposit
Meaning: an earnest, earnest-money, a large part of the payment, given in advance as a security that the whole will be paid afterwards.

Word Origin: Of Semitic origin, akin to the Hebrew word עֲרָבוֹן (arabown)

Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: עֲרָבוֹן (arabown) - Strong's Hebrew 6162, which also means pledge or security.

Usage: In the New Testament, "arrabón" is used to describe a pledge or a down payment that guarantees the fulfillment of a promise. It is a term that conveys the idea of a first installment or a deposit that secures a future transaction or fulfillment. In a spiritual context, it is used to describe the Holy Spirit as a guarantee of the believer's future inheritance in Christ.

Cultural and Historical Background: In ancient commercial practices, an "arrabón" was a legal and binding agreement that served as a security for a future transaction. It was a common practice in Greek, Roman, and Jewish cultures to use a pledge or deposit to ensure that the terms of a contract would be fulfilled. This concept was well understood in the ancient world as a serious commitment to honor one's word.

HELPS Word-studies

728 arrhabṓn – properly, an installment; a deposit ("down-payment") which guarantees the balance (the full purchase-price).

728 /arrhabṓn ("down-payment pledge") is the regular term in NT times for "earnest-money," i.e. advance-payment that guarantees the rest will be given. 728 (arrhabṓn) then represents full security backed by the purchaser who supplies sufficient proof they will fulfill the entire pledge (promise).

[728 (arrhabṓn) is common in the papyri for "down payment/earnest money" and hence frequent in business documents and agreements.]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of Hebrew origin erabon
Definition
an earnest (a part payment in advance for security)
NASB Translation
given as a pledge (1), pledge (2).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 728: ἀραβών

[ἀραβών Tdf., see ἀρραβών.]

STRONGS NT 728: ἀρραβώνἀρραβών (Tdf. ἀραβών: 2 Corinthians 1:22 (to Lachmann); (but not in Ephesians 1:14), see his Proleg., p. 80; WHs Appendix, p. 148; cf. Winers Grammar, 48 (47f); Buttmann, 32 (28f), cf. Rho), ἀρραβωνος, (Hebrew עֵרָבון Genesis 38:17f, 20; from עָרַב to pledge; a word which seems to have passed from the Phoenicians to the Greeks, and thence into Latin), an earnest, i. e. money which in purchases is given as a pledge that the full amount will subsequently be paid (Suidas under the word ἀραβών), (cf. (obs. English earlespenny; caution-money), German Kaufschilling,Haftpfennig): 2 Corinthians 1:22; 2 Corinthians 5:5, τόν ἀρραβῶνα τοῦ πνεύματος i. e. τό πνεῦμα ὡς ἀρραβῶνα namely, τῆς κληρονομίας, as is expressed in full in Ephesians 1:14 (cf. Winers Grammar, § 59, 8 a.; Buttmann, 78 (68)); for the gift of the Holy Spirit, comprising as it does the δυνάμεις τοῦ μέλλοντος αἰῶνος (Hebrews 6:5), is both a foretaste and a pledge of future blessedness; cf. under the word ἀπαρχή, c. (B. D. under the word .) (Isaeus, 8, 23 (p. 210, Reiske edition); Aristotle, pol. 1, 4, 5 (p. 1259{a}, 12); others.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
earnest.

Of Hebrew origin (arabown); a pledge, i.e. Part of the purchase-money or property given in advance as security for the rest -- earnest.

see HEBREW arabown

Forms and Transliterations
αρραβων αρραβών ἀρραβὼν αρραβωνα αρραβώνα αρραβώνά ἀρραβῶνα arrabon arrabōn arrabṑn arrabona arrabôna arrabōna arrabō̂na
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Englishman's Concordance
2 Corinthians 1:22 N-AMS
GRK: δοὺς τὸν ἀρραβῶνα τοῦ πνεύματος
NAS: in our hearts as a pledge.
KJV: and given the earnest of the Spirit in
INT: having given the pledge of the Spirit

2 Corinthians 5:5 N-AMS
GRK: ἡμῖν τὸν ἀρραβῶνα τοῦ πνεύματος
NAS: who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.
KJV: unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
INT: to us the pledge of the Spirit

Ephesians 1:14 N-NMS
GRK: ὅ ἐστιν ἀρραβὼν τῆς κληρονομίας
NAS: who is given as a pledge of our inheritance,
KJV: is the earnest of our
INT: who is [the] guarantee of the inheritance

Strong's Greek 728
3 Occurrences


ἀρραβὼν — 1 Occ.
ἀρραβῶνα — 2 Occ.

















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