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:
Isaiah 45:23: "knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear."
Isaiah 45:23: " I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return,"
Isaiah 48:1: "and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention"
Isaiah 54:9: "is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go"
Isaiah 54:9: "go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with"
Isaiah 62:8: "The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give"
Isaiah 65:16: "shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth;"
Isaiah 65:16: "of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former"
Jeremiah 4:2: " And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves"
Jeremiah 5:2: "The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely."
Jeremiah 5:7: "thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full,"
Jeremiah 7:9: "Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk"
Jeremiah 11:5: "the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing"
Jeremiah 12:16: "they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth;"
Jeremiah 12:16: "as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst"
Jeremiah 22:5: "these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this"
Jeremiah 32:22: "this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing"
Jeremiah 38:16: "So Zedekiah the king swore secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD"
Jeremiah 40:9: "of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not"
Jeremiah 44:26: "in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD,"
Jeremiah 49:13: "For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation,"
Jeremiah 51:14: "The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men,"
Ezekiel 16:8: "over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I swore unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith"
Ezekiel 21:23: "unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity,"
Daniel 12:7: "his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that liveth forever that"
Hosea 4:15: "go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth."
Amos 4:2: "The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come"
Amos 6:8: "The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts,"
Amos 8:7: "The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any"
Amos 8:14: " They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner"
Micah 7:20: "and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old."
Zephaniah 1:5: "upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;"
Zephaniah 1:5: "and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;"
Zechariah 5:3: "as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side"
Zechariah 5:4: "of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst"
Malachi 3:5: "against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow,"
