Limitless Word
עָרַבʻârab/aw-rab'/
HebrewH614822 occurrences (KJV)

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

KJV renders it: engage, (inter-) meddle (with), mingle (self), mortgage, occupy, give pledges, be(-come, put in) surety, undertake.

Where it appears

  • Gen 43:9I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,
  • Gen 44:32For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’
  • 2 Kgs 18:23Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
  • Ezra 9:2For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”
  • Neh 5:3There were also some that said, “We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”
  • Job 17:3“Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
  • Ps 106:35but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.
  • Ps 119:122Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.
  • Prov 6:1My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;
  • Prov 11:15He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.
  • Prov 14:10The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
  • Prov 17:18A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.
  • Prov 20:16Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
  • Prov 20:19He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
  • Prov 22:26Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.
  • Prov 24:21My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious:
  • Prov 27:13Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!
  • Isa 36:8Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
  • Isa 38:14I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”
  • Jer 30:21Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from among them. I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me; for who is he who has had boldness to approach to me?” says Yahweh.
  • Ezek 27:9The old men of Gebal and its wise men were your repairers of ship seams in you: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.
  • Ezek 27:27Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is among you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.