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The Jews lie about the Tanahk as they do everything else, just as Christ said (Mark 7:6-13, John 5:45-47, 8:44).
ערב ('arab)
Which usually means to make a debt security for, can be used to mean to be held accountable for something or someone.
"For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'" (Genesis 44:32)
"Give your servant a pledge of good; let not the insolent oppress me." (Psalm 119:122)
And needless to say, the ancient Hebrews knew about the concept of accountability (ex. "Am I my brother's keeper?") even if a specific one-to-one word was not used like the English tongue.
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The other side of this post is to not do what some idiots and midwits on the far right, particularly unbelievers, do and take this article on face value, blaspheming God and His Word in the process.
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Low key I love some of the poetic ways this sentiment is expressed without a word for it.
Ezekiel 33:4 - "Then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not heed the warning and the sword comes and takes their life, their blood will be on their own head"