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Proverbs 20

Prov. 20:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Take
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
his garment
beged (Hebrew #899)
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
KJV usage: apparel, cloth(-es, ing), garment, lap, rag, raiment, robe, X very (treacherously), vesture, wardrobe.
Pronounce: behg'-ed
Origin: from 898
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
: and take a pledge
chabal (Hebrew #2254)
to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition)
KJV usage: X at all, band, bring forth, (deal) corrupt(-ly), destroy, offend, lab to (take a) pledge. spoil, travail, X very, withhold.
Pronounce: khaw-bal'
Origin: a primitive root
of him for a strange woman
nokriy (Hebrew #5237)
strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)
KJV usage: alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange(-r, woman).
Pronounce: nok-ree'
Origin: from 5235 (second form)
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More on:

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Garments,
Pledge,
Stranger,
Suretiship,
Woman

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Take his.
Prov. 11:15• 15He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure. (Prov. 11:15)
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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)
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Prov. 27:13• 13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. (Prov. 27:13)
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Ex. 22:26‑27• 26If thou at all take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
 27For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. (Ex. 22:26‑27)
a strange.
Prov. 2:16• 16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; (Prov. 2:16)
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Prov. 5:3• 3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: (Prov. 5:3)
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Prov. 7:5,10• 5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
 10And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtile of heart. (Prov. 7:5,10)
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Prov. 23:27• 27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. (Prov. 23:27)
• To keep clear of both is the only path of safety. To temporize is generally to invite defeat. The man who can say “No,” and stand by it, when tempted to one side or the other, alone is secure. (“Proverbs Twenty” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Take his garment that is become surety for another, and hold him in pledge for strangersd.

JND Translation Notes

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d
Some read "the strange woman," conforming this passage to ch. 27.13.