Proverbs 20:16 BSB — MannaFest

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8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לְֽקַח־	le.kach-	take	H3947 →
בִּ֭גְדוֹ	big.do	garment his	H899 →
כִּי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
עָ֣רַב	'A.rav	he stands surety for	H6148 →
זָ֑ר	Zar	a stranger	H2114 →
וּבְעַ֖ד	u.ve.'Ad	and for	H1157 →
נָכְרִיָּ֣ה	na.khe.rim	a foreign [woman]	H5237 →
חַבְלֵֽהוּ׃	chav.Le.hu	hold in pledge it	H2254 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 27:13
Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
leads to
- Proverbs 22:26–27
  Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 6:1–4
  My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,
Through
Proverbs 7:10
Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 11:2–3
  I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
- 1 Timothy 2:9
  Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
- Isaiah 3:16–24
  The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
- Jeremiah 4:30
  And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain;…
Through
Proverbs 11:15
He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
leads to
- Proverbs 17:18
  A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.
- Proverbs 6:1–5
  My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Proverbs 6:1My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,Proverbs 27:13Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.Exodus 22:26If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,Proverbs 22:27If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?Exodus 22:26–27If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,Proverbs 17:18A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.Proverbs 11:15He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.Proverbs 22:26–27Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.Proverbs 7:10Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.Proverbs 2:16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words Proverbs 5:3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,Proverbs 7:5that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.Proverbs 23:27For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.Genesis 38:17“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”Hebrews 7:22Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.Job 17:3Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

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