aras · betroth

What it means

aras (אָרַשׂ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “betroth”.

A firm agreement made before the wedding.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To pledge firmly to marry.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• engaged ×6
• I will betroth you ×3
• betrothed ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×6
• 2 Samuel×1
• Hosea×3

• Exodus 22:16

  When a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall surely pay the bride-price for her to make her his wife.

• Deuteronomy 20:7

  And who is the man who has become engaged to a woman and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, so that he does not die in the war and another man take her.”

• Deuteronomy 22:23

  If there is a young woman, a virgin, engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,

• Deuteronomy 22:25

  But if in the field the man finds the young woman who is engaged, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

• Deuteronomy 22:27

  because he found her in the field; the engaged young woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.

• Deuteronomy 22:28

  If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

• Deuteronomy 28:30

  You will become engaged to a woman, and another man will lie with her; you will build a house, and you will not live in it; you will plant a vineyard, and you will not begin to use it.

• 2 Samuel 3:14

  David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, saying, “Give me my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

• Hosea 2:19

  And I will betroth you to me forever; and I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, and in loyal love and in compassion.

• Hosea 2:20

  And I will betroth you to me in faithfulness, and you will know YHWH.

And 1 more times.