Mortgage
(, 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 , 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 , and arrhabo, in the signification of earnest, or purchase-money. SEE LOAN.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Mortgage
morgaj , arabh): To give or be security as a part of bartering, give pledges, become surety. In time of great need for food, Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging (the King James Version have mortgaged) our fields, etc. Neh 5:3. See SURETY.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Mortgage
On land
Neh 5:3 Land