The Meaning of Proverbs 27:13 Explained

Proverbs 27:13

KJV: Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

YLT: Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.

Darby: Take his garment that is become surety for another, and hold him in pledge for a strange woman.

ASV: Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for a foreign woman.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Proverbs 27:13?

MEANING: What does Proverbs 27:13 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Proverbs 27:13 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Proverbs 27:13?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Proverbs 27:13 Mean?

Verse Meaning

The point of this parable and the one in Proverbs 20:16 is the same. We should hold people to their obligations.

Context Summary

Proverbs 27:1-22 - "hearty Counsel"
The keyword in this paragraph is friends, Proverbs 27:6; Proverbs 27:9-10; Proverbs 27:14; Proverbs 27:17; Proverbs 19:1-29. Friends, according to the original sense of the Hebrew word, are those who delight in each other's companionship. Either they are useful to each other because the one possesses gifts that the other lacks, or they have certain tastes in common.
It is in friendship that we get to know ourselves, as a man sees his face in the mirror of calm water, Proverbs 27:19. We unfold to each other; our friend elicits traits of which we were hardly aware. Our sympathy and tenderness are drawn forth by our friend's troubles, as our laughter flashes out to awaken or to answer his high spirits. We shudder to think what cold and undeveloped beings we should be without the sharpening of friendship, Proverbs 27:17. How sweet human friendships are! Proverbs 27:9. Why not find equal confidence and sweetness in the greatest Friend of all? Of course, there is a friendship "which is wholly hypocritical and worthless." Such a friendship is marked by loud and ostentatious demonstration. See Proverbs 27:14. Ponder Christ's offer, John 15:14-15. [source]

Chapter Summary: Proverbs 27

1  observations of self love
5  of true love
11  of care to avoid offenses
23  and of the household care

What do the individual words in Proverbs 27:13 mean?

Take the garment of him who is surety for a stranger and for a seductress hold it in pledge [when] he is surety
קַח־ בִּ֭גְדוֹ כִּי־ עָ֣רַב זָ֑ר וּבְעַ֖ד נָכְרִיָּ֣ה חַבְלֵֽהוּ

קַח־  Take 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine singular
Root: יָקַח 
Sense: to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away.
בִּ֭גְדוֹ  the  garment  of  him 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: בֶּגֶד 
Sense: treachery, deceit.
עָ֣רַב  is  surety 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: עָרַב 
Sense: to pledge, exchange, mortgage, engage, occupy, undertake for, give pledges, be or become surety, take on pledge, give in pledge.
זָ֑ר  for  a  stranger 
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular
Root: זוּר 
Sense: to be strange, be a stranger.
וּבְעַ֖ד  and  for 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition
Root: בַּעַד 
Sense: behind, through, round about, on behalf of, away from, about.
נָכְרִיָּ֣ה  a  seductress 
Parse: Adjective, feminine singular
Root: נָכְרִי  
Sense: foreign, alien.
חַבְלֵֽהוּ  hold  it  in  pledge  [when]  he  is  surety 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine singular, third person masculine singular
Root: חָבַל 
Sense: to bind.

What are the major concepts related to Proverbs 27:13?

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Proverbs 20:16 [8]
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