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( òָøִá , arab', Neh_5:3, to pawn anything), a lien upon real estate for debt (Gesenius reads the passage, "we must pawn our houses"); in 1Sa_17:18 rendered " pledge," and in Pro_17:18 " surety," whence òָøָáåֹï , arabon, "anything given as a pledge or promise" (Gen_38:17-18; Gen_38:20). Gesenius thinks the word was probably introduced as a commercial term, from the Hebrew or Phoenician language, into the Greek and Latin, as ἀῤῥáâώí , and arrhabo, in the signification of earnest, or purchase-money. SEE LOAN.