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== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_77479" /> == | == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_77479" /> == | ||
<div> '''1: '''''Ἀρραβών''''' ''' (Strong'S #728 | <div> '''1: '''''Ἀρραβών''''' ''' (Strong'S #728 — Noun Masculine — arrabon — ar-hrab-ohn' ) </div> <p> originally, "earnest-money" deposited by the purchaser and forfeited if the purchase was not completed, was probably a Phoenician word, introduced into Greece. In general usage it came to denote "a pledge" or "earnest" of any sort; in the NT it is used only of that which is assured by God to believers; it is said of the Holy Spirit as the [[Divine]] "pledge" of all their future blessedness, 2—Corinthians 1:22; 5:5; in Ephesians 1:14 , particularly of their eternal inheritance. In the Sept., Genesis 38:17,18,20 . In modern Greek arrabona is an "engagement ring." </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_50728" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_50728" /> == | ||
