H7650: שָׁבַע
shâbaʻ · pronounced shaw-bah' · “to swear”
Definition
to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
KJV translates it as: adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full (by mistake for H7646 (שָׂבַע)), take an oath, [idiom] straitly, (cause to, make to) swear.
Word origin: a primitive root; properly to be complete, but used only as a denominative from H7651 (שֶׁבַע);
Extended definition
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
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7650 is translated
- he swore ×32
- he swore an oath ×17
- i swore ×16
- i swear ×8
- he had sworn ×7
- ! ×5
- you ×5
- you swore ×5
- one who swears an oath ×5
- they swore an oath ×4
- he made to swear an oath ×4
- swear ×4
Bible verses with H7650 (shâbaʻ)
Shâbaʻ appears in 175 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 21:23
Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
- Genesis 21:24
And Abraham said, I will swear.
- Genesis 21:31
Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.
- Genesis 22:16
And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
- Genesis 24:3
And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
- Genesis 24:7
The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
- Genesis 24:9
And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
- Genesis 24:37
And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:
- Genesis 25:33
And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
- Genesis 26:3
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
- Genesis 26:31
And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
- Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
- Genesis 47:31
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.
- Genesis 50:5
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
- Genesis 50:6
And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
- Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
- Genesis 50:25
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
- Exodus 13:5
And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
- Exodus 13:11
And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
- Exodus 13:19
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
- Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
- Exodus 33:1
And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
- Leviticus 5:4
Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
- Leviticus 6:3
Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
- Leviticus 6:5
Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
All 175 references
- Leviticus 19:12
- Numbers 5:19
- Numbers 5:21
- Numbers 11:12
- Numbers 14:16
- Numbers 14:23
- Numbers 30:2
- Numbers 32:10
- Numbers 32:11
- Deuteronomy 1:8
- Deuteronomy 1:34
- Deuteronomy 1:35
- Deuteronomy 2:14
- Deuteronomy 4:21
- Deuteronomy 4:31
- Deuteronomy 6:10
- Deuteronomy 6:13
- Deuteronomy 6:18
- Deuteronomy 6:23
- Deuteronomy 7:8
- Deuteronomy 7:12
- Deuteronomy 7:13
- Deuteronomy 8:1
- Deuteronomy 8:18
- Deuteronomy 9:5
- Deuteronomy 10:11
- Deuteronomy 10:20
- Deuteronomy 11:9
- Deuteronomy 11:21
- Deuteronomy 13:17
- Deuteronomy 19:8
- Deuteronomy 26:3
- Deuteronomy 26:15
- Deuteronomy 28:9
- Deuteronomy 28:11
- Deuteronomy 29:13
- Deuteronomy 30:20
- Deuteronomy 31:7
- Deuteronomy 31:20
- Deuteronomy 31:21
- Deuteronomy 31:23
- Deuteronomy 34:4
- Joshua 1:6
- Joshua 2:12
- Joshua 2:17
- Joshua 2:20
- Joshua 5:6
- Joshua 6:22
- Joshua 6:26
- Joshua 9:15
- Joshua 9:18
- Joshua 9:19
- Joshua 9:20
- Joshua 14:9
- Joshua 21:43
- Joshua 21:44
- Joshua 23:7
- Judges 2:1
- Judges 2:15
- Judges 15:12
- Judges 21:1
- Judges 21:7
- Judges 21:18
- 1 Samuel 3:14
- 1 Samuel 14:27
- 1 Samuel 14:28
- 1 Samuel 19:6
- 1 Samuel 20:3
- 1 Samuel 20:17
- 1 Samuel 20:42
- 1 Samuel 24:21
- 1 Samuel 24:22
- 1 Samuel 28:10
- 1 Samuel 30:15
- 2 Samuel 3:9
- 2 Samuel 3:35
- 2 Samuel 19:7
- 2 Samuel 19:23
- 2 Samuel 21:2
- 2 Samuel 21:17
- 1 Kings 1:13
- 1 Kings 1:17
- 1 Kings 1:29
- 1 Kings 1:30
- 1 Kings 1:51
- 1 Kings 2:8
- 1 Kings 2:23
- 1 Kings 2:42
- 1 Kings 18:10
- 1 Kings 22:16
- 2 Kings 11:4
- 2 Kings 25:24
- 2 Chronicles 15:14
- 2 Chronicles 15:15
- 2 Chronicles 18:15
- 2 Chronicles 36:13
- Ezra 10:5
- Nehemiah 5:12
- Nehemiah 13:25
- Psalms 15:4
- Psalms 24:4
- Psalms 63:11
- Psalms 89:3
- Psalms 89:35
- Psalms 89:49
- Psalms 95:11
- Psalms 102:8
- Psalms 110:4
- Psalms 119:106
- Psalms 132:2
- Psalms 132:11
- Ecclesiastes 9:2
- Song of Solomon 2:7
- Song of Solomon 3:5
- Song of Solomon 5:8
- Song of Solomon 5:9
- Song of Solomon 8:4
- Isaiah 14:24
- Isaiah 19:18
- Isaiah 45:23
- Isaiah 48:1
- Isaiah 54:9
- Isaiah 62:8
- Isaiah 65:16
- Jeremiah 4:2
- Jeremiah 5:2
- Jeremiah 5:7
- Jeremiah 7:9
- Jeremiah 11:5
- Jeremiah 12:16
- Jeremiah 22:5
- Jeremiah 32:22
- Jeremiah 38:16
- Jeremiah 40:9
- Jeremiah 44:26
- Jeremiah 49:13
- Jeremiah 51:14
- Ezekiel 16:8
- Ezekiel 21:23
- Daniel 12:7
- Hosea 4:15
- Amos 4:2
- Amos 6:8
- Amos 8:7
- Amos 8:14
- Micah 7:20
- Zephaniah 1:5
- Zechariah 5:3
- Zechariah 5:4
- Malachi 3:5