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Proverbs 11

Prov. 11:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He that is surety
`arab (Hebrew #6148)
to braid, i.e. intermix; technically, to traffic (as if by barter); also or give to be security (as a kind of exchange)
KJV usage: engage, (inter-)meddle (with), mingle (self), mortgage, occupy, give pledges, be(-come, put in) surety, undertake.
Pronounce: aw-rab'
Origin: a primitive root
for a stranger
zuwr (Hebrew #2114)
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
KJV usage: (come from) another (man, place), fanner, go away, (e-)strange(-r, thing, woman).
Pronounce: zoor
Origin: a primitive root
shall βsmart
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
ruwa` (Hebrew #7321)
to mar (especially by breaking); figuratively, to split the ears (with sound), i.e. shout (for alarm or joy)
KJV usage: blow an alarm, cry (alarm, aloud, out), destroy, make a joyful noise, smart, shout (for joy), sound an alarm, triumph.
Pronounce: roo-ah'
Origin: a primitive root
for it: and he that hateth
sane' (Hebrew #8130)
to hate (personally)
KJV usage: enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, X utterly.
Pronounce: saw-nay'
Origin: a primitive root
γsuretiship
taqa` (Hebrew #8628)
to clatter, i.e. slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument); by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.); by implication, to become bondsman by handclasping)
KJV usage: blow ((a trumpet)), cast, clap, fasten, pitch (tent), smite, sound, strike, X suretiship, thrust.
Pronounce: taw-kah'
Origin: a primitive root
is sure
batach (Hebrew #982)
properly, to hie for refuge (but not so precipitately as 2620); figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure
KJV usage: be bold (confident, secure, sure), careless (one, woman), put confidence, (make to) hope, (put, make to) trust.
Pronounce: baw-takh'
Origin: a primitive root
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be sore broken.
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those that strike hands,
Prov. 6:1• 1My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, (Prov. 6:1)
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Stranger,
Suretiship

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Ministry on This Verse

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that is surety.
Prov. 6:1‑5• 1My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
 2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
 3Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
 4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
 5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. (Prov. 6:1‑5)
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Prov. 17:18• 18A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend. (Prov. 17:18)
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Prov. 20:16• 16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. (Prov. 20:16)
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Prov. 22:26‑27• 26Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
 27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? (Prov. 22:26‑27)
smart.
Heb. be sore broken.
suretiship.
Heb. those thatstrike hands.
• But there was One who knew to the full what all the consequences of His act would be, and yet, in grace, deigned to become “Surety for a stranger.” “Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich” (2 Cor. 8:9). He was the stranger’s Surety. (“Proverbs Eleven” by H.A. Ironside)
• A surety is one who goes good for another. Many a man will do this for a friend long known and trusted; but no wise man will so act for a stranger. But it was when we were “strangers and foreigners,” “enemies and alienated in our minds by wicked works,” that Jesus in grace became our Surety. (“Proverbs Eleven” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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It goeth ill with him that is surety for anotherg; but he that hateth suretyshiph is secure.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "a stranger." see Note, chs. 5.10; 27.2.
h
Lit. "those that strike [hands]."