עָרַב
ʻârab · aw-rab'
to braid, i.e. intermix; technically, to traffic (as if by barter); also or give to be security (as a kind of exchange)
Lexicon
Derivation: 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)
- to braid, i.e. intermix
- technically, to traffic (as if by barter)
- also, or give to be security (as a kind of exchange)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: engage, (inter-) meddle (with), mingle (self), mortgage, occupy, give pledges, be(-come, put in) surety, undertake.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the head, the highest › the house, what is within
To see and know of the head, the highest of the house, what is within.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָרַב above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
22 occurrences · 22 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- that is surety2 · 9%
- i will be surety1 · 5%
- became surety1 · 5%
- now therefore, i pray thee, give pledges1 · 5%
- have mingled1 · 5%
- we have mortgaged1 · 5%
- now, put me in a surety1 · 5%
- but were mingled1 · 5%
- be surety1 · 5%
- if thou be surety1 · 5%
- he that is surety1 · 5%
- doth not intermeddle1 · 5%
- and becometh1 · 5%
- therefore meddle1 · 5%
- or of them that are sureties1 · 5%
- and meddle1 · 5%
- now therefore give pledges1 · 5%
- undertake1 · 5%
- unto me: for who is this that engaged1 · 5%
- were in thee to occupy1 · 5%
- and the occupiers1 · 5%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.