'Engaged' in the Bible

Has any man become engaged to a woman and not married her? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise he may die in battle and another man marry her.’

If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and has sex with her,

But if the man encounters an engaged woman in the open country, and he seizes and rapes her, only the man who raped her must die.

When he found her in the field, the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.

If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered,

You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.

Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal. I was engaged to her for the price of 100 Philistine foreskins.”

You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and you engaged in prostitution on them. These places should not have been built, and this should never have happened!

You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbors, and increased your prostitution to provoke Me to anger.

Then you engaged in prostitution with the Assyrian men because you were not satisfied. Even though you did this with them, you were still not satisfied.

But when a righteous person turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same detestable acts that the wicked do, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. He will die because of the treachery he has engaged in and the sin he has committed.

The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: After His mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

to a virgin engaged to a man named Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

to be registered along with Mary, who was engaged to him and was pregnant.

But after Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, the church arranged for Paul and Barnabas and some others of them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this controversy.

When they reached Ephesus he left them there, but he himself entered the synagogue and engaged in discussion with the Jews.

When he had assembled them, as well as the workers engaged in this type of business, he said: “Men, you know that our prosperity is derived from this business.