Strong's #5670: `abat (pronounced aw-bat')

a primitive root; to pawn; causatively, to lend (on security); figuratively, to entangle:--borrow, break (ranks), fetch (a pledge), lend, X surely.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âbaṭ

1) to take a pledge, give a pledge (for a debt)

1a) (Qal) to take a pledge, give a pledge (for a debt)

1b) (Piel) to interchange

1c) (Hiphil) to cause to give a pledge

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Deuteronomy 15:6: "blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not"
Deuteronomy 15:6: "nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not"
Deuteronomy 15:8: "thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which"
Deuteronomy 15:8: "thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which"
Deuteronomy 24:10: "go into his house to fetch his pledge."
Joel 2:7: "every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:"