Strong's #781: 'aras (pronounced aw-ras')

a primitive root; to engage for matrimony:--betroth, espouse.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'âraś

1) to betroth, engage

1a) (Piel) to betroth (man or woman)

1b) (Pual) to be betrothed

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

Exodus 22:16: "a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow"
Deuteronomy 20:7: "And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not her? let him go"
Deuteronomy 22:23: "a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto a husband, find her in the city,"
Deuteronomy 22:25: "a man find a betrothed damsel and the man force"
Deuteronomy 22:27: "For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, to save"
Deuteronomy 22:28: "that is a virgin, which betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;"
Deuteronomy 28:30: " Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build and thou shalt not"
2 Samuel 3:14: "Michal, which I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines."
Hosea 2:19: " And I will betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness,"
Hosea 2:19: "And I will betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness,"
Hosea 2:20: " I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD."