arrha

The word is supposed to be derived from the Hebrew E+R+oB+W+N%; and the Latins make use of it also, arrhabon and arrha.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

The Latins have made words for it, from that expressed here in the Greek, “arrha” and “arrabo.”

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

First the wedding ring itself, in accordance with the old Roman custom, seems to have been originally a pledge or arrha given at the sponsalia by the bridegroom as the earnest of the future fulfilment of his share in the contract.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

She passed into the possession of her husband by acquisition, and when he fixed the wedding day he gave her parents coins of small money as _arrha_, and the day after the wedding she received from him a present, the _morgengabe_.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

Atque hoc solido obtinendae victoriae solatio, et infallibili aeternae gloriae arrha, si in hoc mundo electi

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

(V, § 7) Great care was taken that wages greater than the law allowed should not be evaded by the payment of _arrha_ or payment in produce.

System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855

But, perhaps, he spoke only of a cautionary _arrha_ or earnest.

Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822

_] 309 [That is, an earnest (_arrha_ Lat.). — _Ed.

The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640