Strong's #6148: `arab (pronounced aw-rab')
a primitive root; to braid, i.e. intermix; technically, to traffic (as if by barter); also or give to be security (as a kind of exchange):--engage, (inter-)meddle (with), mingle (self), mortgage, occupy, give pledges, be(-come, put in) surety, undertake.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
‛ârab
1) to pledge, exchange, mortgage, engage, occupy, undertake for, give pledges, be or become surety, take on pledge, give in pledge
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to take on pledge, go surety for
1a2) to give in pledge
1a3) to exchange
1a4) to pledge
1b) (Hithpael)
1b1) to exchange pledges
1b2) to have fellowship with, share
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 18 times:
Genesis 43:9: "I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not"
Genesis 44:32: "For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father,"
Ezra 9:2: "of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand"
Nehemiah 5:3: "that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy"
Job 17:3: "Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands"
Psalms 106:35: " But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works."
Psalms 119:122: " Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress"
Proverbs 6:1: "My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,"
Proverbs 11:15: " He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure."
Proverbs 14:10: "bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy."
Proverbs 17:18: "of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend."
Proverbs 20:16: "Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman."
Proverbs 20:19: "as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips."
Proverbs 22:26: "not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts."
Proverbs 24:21: "thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:"
Proverbs 27:13: "Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman."
Jeremiah 30:21: "me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach"
Ezekiel 27:27: "thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy caulkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men"
