# H6148 עָרַב

עָרַב (ʻârab), Strong’s H6148: to braid, i.e. intermix; technically, to traffic (as if by barter); also or give to be security (as a kind of exchange) KJV: engage, (inter-) meddle (with), mingle…

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

KJV: engage, (inter-) meddle (with), mingle (self), mortgage, occupy, give pledges…

Occurs 23 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָרַב vb. take on pledge, give in pledge, exchange
- Qal
- 1 c. acc. pers. take on pledge, i.e. go surety for
- 2 give in pledge
- 3 exchange (in trade)
- Hithp.
- 1 recipr. exchange pledges (make a bargain) with my lord
- a have fellowship with
- b share in

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 43:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=9) — I’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…
- [Genesis 44:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=32) — For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the…
- [2 Kings 18:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/18?v=23) — Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses if you are…
- [Isaiah 36:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/36?v=8) — Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you…
- [Isaiah 38:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/38?v=14) — I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my…
- [Jeremiah 30:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/30?v=21) — Their prince will be one of them, and their ruler will proceed from among them. I will cause him to draw near, and he…
- [Ezekiel 27:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/27?v=9) — The old men of Gebal and its wise men were your repairers of ship seams in you. All the ships of the sea with their…
- [Ezekiel 27:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/27?v=27) — Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, the dealers in…
- [Hosea 9:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/9?v=4) — They won’t pour out wine offerings to the LORD, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them…
- [Psalms 106:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/106?v=35) — but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.