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Strong's #7650: shaba` (pronounced shaw-bah')

a primitive root; propr. to be complete, but used only as a denominative from 7651; to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times):--adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full (by mistake for 7646), take an oath, X straitly, (cause to, make to) swear.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ

shâba‛

1) to swear, adjure

1a) (Qal) sworn (participle)

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to swear, take an oath

1b2) to swear (of Jehovah by Himself)

1b3) to curse

1c) (Hiphil)

1c1) to cause to take an oath

1c2) to adjure

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 186 times:

1 Samuel 24:21: " Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after"
1 Samuel 24:22: "And David swore unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David"
1 Samuel 28:10: "And Saul swore to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment"
1 Samuel 30:15: "this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor"
2 Samuel 3:9: "except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do"
2 Samuel 3:35: "while it was yet day, David swore, saying, So do God"
2 Samuel 19:7: "comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth,"
2 Samuel 19:23: "Thou shalt not die. And the king swore"
2 Samuel 21:2: "but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul"
2 Samuel 21:17: "him. Then the men of David swore unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more"
1 Kings 1:13: "thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon"
1 Kings 1:17: "And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly"
1 Kings 1:29: "And the king swore, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed"
1 Kings 1:30: "Even as I swore unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly"
1 Kings 1:51: "saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me today that he will not slay"
1 Kings 2:8: "but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I swore to him by the LORD, saying, I will not"
1 Kings 2:23: "Then king Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, God do so"
1 Kings 2:42: "and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain,"
1 Kings 18:10: "sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation,"
1 Kings 22:16: "many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing"
2 Kings 11:4: "of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them"
2 Kings 25:24: "And Gedaliah swore to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants"
2 Chronicles 15:14: " And they swore unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets."
2 Chronicles 15:15: "at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole"
2 Chronicles 18:15: "him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing"
2 Chronicles 36:13: "against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck,"
Ezra 10:5: "the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they swore."
Ezra 10:5: "that they should do according to this word. And they swore."
Nehemiah 5:12: "Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise."
Nehemiah 13:25: "certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters"
Psalms 15:4: "but he honoreth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not."
Psalms 24:4: "his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully."
Psalms 63:11: "shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak"
Psalms 89:3: "I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,"
Psalms 89:35: "Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David."
Psalms 89:49: "where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?"
Psalms 95:11: "Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest."
Psalms 102:8: "me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn"
Psalms 110:4: "The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever after"
Psalms 119:106: " I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments."
Psalms 132:2: "How he swore unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;"
Psalms 132:11: "The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit"
Ecclesiastes 9:2: "and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath."
Song of Solomon 2:7: " I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up,"
Song of Solomon 3:5: " I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up,"
Song of Solomon 5:8: " I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that"
Song of Solomon 5:9: "what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge"
Song of Solomon 8:4: " I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake"
Isaiah 14:24: "The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought,"
Isaiah 19:18: "speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called,"









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