pledge

Everyday

1. To pledge is to promise firmly, giving your word or faith. tree →
2. A pledge is a solemn promise. tree →
3. A pledge is an item left as a security for a debt, or as a sign that you will keep your word. tree →

In the lessons

in tales a king or a hero makes a pledge, a sworn promise to do or give something; people pledge their faith or word to one another

Examples

• "I give that pledge," said Iollan. tree →
• "We pledge it," said they. tree →
• "I pass it and pledge it," cried the joyful king. tree →
• The children made a pledge to keep the secret. tree →

Note

nothing for maths

In Jewish tradition

In the Torah's law a pledge is the item a borrower gives to the lender, and it must be treated kindly towards the poor.

Interpretation. Tradition says a lender may not enter the house to take it, and must return a poor man's cloak at night. Taking a mill is forbidden because it takes his food and his life.

Examples

• And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge; (Torah DEU.24.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge. (Torah DEU.24.6, JPS 1917) tree →
• Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee. (Torah DEU.24.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. (Writings JOB.24.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor; (Writings JOB.24.9, JPS 1917) tree →
• For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. (Writings JOB.22.6, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

nothing for maths