arrabōnos

Strong’sG728

an earnest, earnest-money

stem arrabōn-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἀρραβών (T, ἀραβ-: II Co 1:22 5:5), -ώνος, ὁ,

[in LXX: Ge 38:17, 18, 20 (עֵרָבוֹן)*;]

an earnest, part payment in advance for security, a first instalment: II Co 1:22 5:5, Eph 1:14. (The word is found in cl. and was prob. brought to Greece by the Phœnicians (AR, Eph., 1:14). It is found in π. with both spellings (v. Milligan, NTD, 73). In MGr. ἀρραβῶνα is an engagement ring; v. MM, s.v.)†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G728 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidar-hrab-ohn'

a pledge, i.e. part of the purchase-money or property given in advance as security for the rest

Fromof Hebrew origin ();

King Jamesearnest.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἀρρᾰβών, ῶνος, ὁ,
earnest-money, caution-money, deposited by the purchaser and forfeited if the purchase is not completed, ἀ. δοῦναί τινοςRefs 4th c.BC+: plural, deposits required from public contractors, Refs
2 generally, pledge, earnest, τὴν τέχνην ἔχοντες ἀ. τοῦ ζῆνNT+4th c.BC+
3 present, bribe, Refs 1st c.AD+. (Semitic, probably Phoenician, word, Hebrew 'ērābōn: frequently written ἀραβών, NT+2nd c.BC+
II ἀρραβών· πρόδομα, καὶ ἄγκιστρον, Refs 5th c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

down payment2×guarantee1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	arrabōnos1×ἀρραβὼν	arrabōnois
object accusative	arrabōnon2×ἀρραβῶνα	arrabōnoin
direct address vocative	arrabōnor	arrabōnoir
of, belonging to genitive	arrabōnou	arrabōnoiu
to, for dative	arrabōno	arrabōnoi

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

arrabōnstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

arrabōno is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

arrabōnos“down payment”subjectnominative singular1×

Ephesians 1:14“down payment”hem atō arrabōnos tau klēronomiau nu, eis apolutrōsian tau …who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those …

arrabōnon“guarantee”objectaccusative singular2×

2 Corinthians 1:22“down payment”… kai sfragizerantos nin kai dōarantos ton arrabōnon teu pneumeu en tai kardiai nu.… seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a …

2 Corinthians 5:5“guarantee”… houtem theos, tos dōarantos ni ton arrabōnon teu pneumeu.… it is God who has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a …