ἐγγυάω
pledge, give surety
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐγγυάω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Proverbs 6:1 ἐγγυάω My son, if you become surety for your friend, you shall deliver your hand to an enemy.
- Proverbs 17:18 ἐγγυάω A foolish man applauds and rejoices over himself, as he also that becomes surety would make himself responsible for his own friends.
- Proverbs 19:28 ἐγγυάω He that becomes surety for a foolish child will despise the ordinance: and the mouth of ungodly men shall drink down judgment.
- Proverbs 28:17 ἐγγυάω He that becomes surety for a man charged with murder shall be an exile, and not in safety. Chasten your son, and he shall love you, and give honor to your soul: he shall not obey a sinful nation.
About this word
About this word
ἐγγυάω (engyáō), “pledge, give surety,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 4 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
