- Original: עבט - Transliteration: `abat - Phonetic: aw-bat' - Definition: 1. to take a pledge, give a pledge (for a debt) a. (Qal) to take a pledge, give a pledge (for a debt) b. (Piel) to interchange c. (Hiphil) to cause to give a pledge - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1555 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to pawn; causatively to lend (on security); figuratively to entangle: - borrow break [ranks] fetch [a pledge] lend X surely. Total KJV Occurrences: 6 • borrow, 1 Deuteronomy 15:6 • break, 1 Joel 2:7 • fetch, 1 Deuteronomy 24:10 • lend, 3 Deuteronomy 15:6; Deuteronomy 15:8(2)