Limitless Word
אָרַשׂʼâras/aw-ras'/
HebrewH78111 occurrences (KJV)

to engage for matrimony

KJV renders it: betroth, espouse.

Where it appears(showing the first 10 of 11)

  • Exod 22:16“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
  • Deut 20:7What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”
  • Deut 22:23If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her;
  • Deut 22:25But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her, and lies with her; then only the man who lay with her shall die;
  • Deut 22:27for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her.
  • Deut 22:28If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her, and lies with her, and they are found;
  • Deut 28:30You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.
  • 2 Sam 3:14David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
  • Hos 2:19I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
  • Hos 2:20I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.