Pledge

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(holding before). [EARNEST.] [LOAN.]

Concise Bible Dictionary:

The taking of articles as security for loans, etc. was very early practiced, and restrictions were given in the law that no unfair advantage should be taken thereby (Ex. 22:26²⁶If thou at all take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: (Exodus 22:26); Deut. 24:10-17¹⁰When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. ¹¹Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. ¹²And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: ¹³In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God. ¹⁴Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: ¹⁵At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee. ¹⁶The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. ¹⁷Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: (Deuteronomy 24:10‑17); Job 22:6⁶For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. (Job 22:6); Job 24:3,9³They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. (Job 24:3)
⁹They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. (Job 24:9); Amos 2:8⁸And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. (Amos 2:8)). In 2 Kings 18:23²³Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. (2 Kings 18:23) and Isaiah 36:8⁸Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. (Isaiah 36:8) the sense is “to make an engagement or treaty.”