arav · pledge, be surety

What it means

arav (עָרַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pledge, be surety”.

Stand as surety: answer personally for another; also exchange, trade, mingle.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To guarantee another's debt.
2. To trade, barter.
3. To mingle with others until one is no longer distinct.
4. To be pleasing to someone, like the sacrifice God accepts.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Be surety for ×2
• be surety for me ×2
• carry on ×2
• he has become surety ×2
• make a deal ×2
• among those who become surety ×1
• are pledging ×1
• be pleasing ×1
• became surety ×1
• becomes surety ×1
• others ×8

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• 2 Kings×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×9
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 43:9

  I will be surety for him; from my hand you may require him. If I do not bring him to you and set him before you, then I will have sinned against you for all time.

• Genesis 44:32

  For your servant became surety for the young man to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him to you, then I will have sinned against my father for all time.’

• 2 Kings 18:23

  Now, make a deal, please, with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put riders of your own on them.

• Ezra 9:2

  For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and the holy offspring has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands; and the hand of the officials and the officials has been first in this unfaithfulness.”

• Nehemiah 5:3

  And there were those who were saying, “Our fields, our vineyards, and our houses we are pledging, so that we may get grain in the famine.”

• Job 17:3

  Lay down my pledge, please; be surety for me with yourself. Who is he that will strike hands with me?

• Psalms 106:35

  but they mixed with the nations and learned their works.

• Psalms 119:122

  Be surety for your servant for good; do not let the insolent oppress me.

• Proverbs 6:1

  My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, if you have struck your palms with a stranger,

• Proverbs 11:15

  It will go badly for one who becomes surety for a stranger, but whoever hates striking palms is secure.

• Proverbs 14:10

  The heart knows the bitterness of its soul, and in its joy no stranger shares.

• Proverbs 17:18

  A man lacking in sense strikes the palm, becoming surety before his neighbor.

• Proverbs 20:16

  Take his garment, for he has become surety for a stranger, and for a foreign woman take a pledge from him.

• Proverbs 20:19

  One who reveals a secret goes about as a gossip, so with one who opens his lips do not mix.

• Proverbs 22:26

  Do not be among those who strike palms, among those who become surety for debts.

• Proverbs 24:21

  Fear YHWH, my son, and the king; with those who are different do not get involved;

• Proverbs 27:13

  Take his garment, for he has become surety for a stranger; and for a foreign woman take a pledge from him.

• Isaiah 36:8

  Now, make a deal, please, with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put riders of your own on them.

• Isaiah 38:14

  Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirped; I moaned like the dove; my eyes grew weak looking on high. Adonai, oppression is on me; be surety for me.

• Jeremiah 30:21

  And his noble one will be from himself, and his ruler will go out from his midst; and I will bring him near, and he will approach me; for who is this who pledges his heart to approach me? declares YHWH.

• Ezekiel 27:9

  The elders of Gebal and her wise men were in you, repairing your cracks; all the ships of the sea and their sailors were in you to carry on your exchange.

• Ezekiel 27:27

  Your wealth and your wares, your exchange, your sailors and your pilots, those who repair your cracks, and those who carry on your exchange, and all your men of war who are in you, and all your assembly that is in your midst, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall.

• Hosea 9:4

  They will not pour out libations of wine to YHWH, and their sacrifices will not be pleasing to him; they will be like the bread of mourners to them; all who eat it will be defiled; for their bread will be for their soul; it will not come into the house of YHWH.