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Strong’s H6148 · Hebrew

עָרַב

ʻârab · aw-rab'

Origin a primitive root;

Meaning to braid, i.e. intermix; technically, to traffic (as if by barter); also or give to be security (as a kind of exchange)

In the King James Version engage, (inter-) meddle (with), mingle (self), mortgage, occupy, give pledges, be(-come, put in) surety, undertake.

In 22 verses of the King James Version

  1. Genesis 43:9I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
  2. Genesis 44:32For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
  3. 2 Kings 18:23Now 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.
  4. Ezra 9:2For they have taken 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 of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
  5. Nehemiah 5:3Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
  6. Job 17:3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
  7. Psalms 106:35But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
  8. Psalms 119:122Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
  9. Proverbs 6:1My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
  10. Proverbs 11:15He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
  11. Proverbs 14:10The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
  12. Proverbs 17:18A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
  13. Proverbs 20:16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
  14. Proverbs 20:19He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
  15. Proverbs 22:26Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
  16. Proverbs 24:21My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
  17. Proverbs 27:13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
  18. Isaiah 36:8Now 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.
  19. Isaiah 38:14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
  20. Jeremiah 30:21And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
  21. Ezekiel 27:9The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
  22. Ezekiel 27:27Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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