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Proverbs 20:16 Interlinear

“Take his garment that is surety for a stranger of him for a strange woman and take a pledge”

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Proverbs 20 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	לְֽקַח	H3947	Take	to take (in the widest variety of applications)
2	בִּ֭גְדוֹ	H899	his garment	a covering, i.e., clothing
3	כִּי	H3588		(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
4	עָ֣רַב	H6148	that is surety	to braid, i.e., intermix; technically, to traffic (as if by barter); also or give to be security (as a kind of exchange)
5	זָ֑ר	H2114	for a stranger	to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
6	וּבְעַ֖ד	H1157		in up to or over against; generally at, beside, among, behind, for, etc
7	נָכְרִיָּ֣ם	H5237	of him for a strange woman	strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)
8	חַבְלֵֽהוּ׃	H2254	and take a pledge	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 partur

Proverbs 20:16 (current)Take his garment that is surety for a stranger of him for a strange woman and take a pledge