Legacy Standard Bible

שָׁבַע

shaba

H7650 · Hebrew / Aramaic

(989a); of unc. or.; to swear, take an oath:--

LSB renderings

call us to solemnly swear(1), call you to solemnly swear(3), had them swear(1), made a covenant(1), made them swear(1), make you swear(2), put the people under a sworn oath(1), solemn(1), solemnly swear(1), strictly put the people under a sworn oath(1), swear(45), swearer(1), swearing(1), swears(7), swear the oath(1), swore(75), sworn(41).

Occurs in 175 verses

  • Gen 21:23so now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but according to the lovingkindness that I have shown you, you shall show me and the land in which you have sojourned.”
  • Gen 21:24And Abraham said, “I swear it.”
  • Gen 21:31Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.
  • Gen 22:16and said, “By Myself I have sworn, declares Yahweh, because you have done this thing and have not spared your son, your only one,
  • Gen 24:3and I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,
  • Gen 24:7Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my kin, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘To your seed I will give this land,’ He will send His angel before you, and you will take a wife for my son from there.
  • Gen 24:9So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.
  • Gen 24:37And my master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live;
  • Gen 25:33And Jacob said, “First swear to me”; so he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
  • Gen 26:3Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your seed I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.
  • Gen 26:31In the morning they arose early, and each swore to the other; then Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
  • Gen 31:53The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the dread of his father Isaac.
  • Gen 47:31Then he said, “Swear to me.” So he swore to him. Then Israel bowed in worship at the head of the bed.
  • Gen 50:5My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” So now, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’”
  • Gen 50:6And Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.”
  • Gen 50:24And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
  • Gen 50:25Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones up from here.”
  • Ex 13:5And it shall be when Yahweh brings you to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall do this service in this month.
  • Ex 13:11And it will be when Yahweh brings you to the land of the Canaanite, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,
  • Ex 13:19And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, “God will surely take care of you, and you shall bring up my bones from here with you.”
  • Ex 32:13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and You said to them, ‘I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
  • Ex 33:1Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go! Go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘To your seed I will give it.’
  • Lev 5:4Or if a person swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, in whatever matter a man may speak thoughtlessly with a sworn oath, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty in one of these.
  • Lev 6:3or has found what was lost and dealt falsely about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may do;
  • Lev 6:5or anything about which he swore falsely; he shall make restitution for it in full and add to it one-fifth more. He shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day he presents his guilt offering.
  • Lev 19:12And you shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.
  • Num 5:19Then the priest shall have her swear an oath and shall say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray into defilement, being under the authority of your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings curses;
  • Num 5:21(then the priest shall have the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people by Yahweh making your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell;
  • Num 11:12Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who gave birth to them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries a nursing baby, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?
  • Num 14:16Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to them, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
  • Num 14:23shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.
  • Num 30:2If a man makes a vow to Yahweh or swears an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
  • Num 32:10So Yahweh’s anger burned in that day, and He swore an oath, saying,
  • Num 32:11None of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; for they did not follow Me fully,
  • Deut 1:8See, I have given over the land before you; go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to them and to their seed after them.’
  • Deut 1:34Then Yahweh heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and swore an oath, saying,
  • Deut 1:35Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers,
  • Deut 2:14Now the time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war came to an end from within the camp, as Yahweh had sworn to them.
  • Deut 4:21Now Yahweh was angry with me on your account and swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  • Deut 4:31For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.
  • Deut 6:10Then it will be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and good cities which you did not build,
  • Deut 6:13Yahweh your God you shall fear; and Him you shall serve; and by His name you shall swear.
  • Deut 6:18And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of Yahweh, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to give your fathers,
  • Deut 6:23but He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.’
  • Deut 7:8but because Yahweh loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your fathers, Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
  • Deut 7:12Then it will be, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you His covenant and His lovingkindness which He swore to your fathers.
  • Deut 7:13And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.
  • Deut 8:1The entire commandment that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to give to your fathers.
  • Deut 8:18But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
  • Deut 9:5It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that Yahweh your God is dispossessing them before you, in order to confirm the oath which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
  • Deut 10:11Then Yahweh said to me, ‘Arise, go on your journey ahead of the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’
  • Deut 10:20Yahweh your God you shall fear; Him you shall serve, and to Him you shall cling, and by His name you shall swear.
  • Deut 11:9so that you may prolong your days on the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  • Deut 11:21so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth.
  • Deut 13:17Now nothing from that which is devoted to destruction shall cling to your hand, in order that Yahweh may turn from His burning anger and grant compassion to you and show compassion to you and make you multiply, just as He has sworn to your fathers,
  • Deut 19:8Now if Yahweh your God enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give to your fathers
  • Deut 26:3And you shall go to the priest who is in office in those days and say to him, ‘I declare this day to Yahweh my God that I have entered the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.’
  • Deut 26:15Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the ground which You have given to us, a land flowing with milk and honey, as You swore to our fathers.’
  • Deut 28:9Yahweh will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and walk in His ways.
  • Deut 28:11And Yahweh will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
  • Deut 29:13in order that He may establish you today as His people and that He may be your God, just as He spoke to you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
  • Deut 30:20by loving Yahweh your God, by listening to His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
  • Deut 31:7Then Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance.
  • Deut 31:20For when I bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and are satisfied and become fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them and spurn Me and break My covenant.
  • Deut 31:21Then it will be, when many evils and troubles have found them, that this song will answer them as a witness (for it shall not be forgotten from the mouths of their seed); for I know their intent which they are developing today, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”
  • Deut 31:23Then He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall bring the sons of Israel into the land which I swore to them, and I will be with you.”
  • Deut 34:4Then Yahweh said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your seed’; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”
  • Josh 1:6Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
  • Josh 2:12So now, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have shown lovingkindness to you, that you also will show lovingkindness to my father’s household and give me a pledge of truth,
  • Josh 2:17And the men said to her, “We shall be free from this oath to you which you have made us swear,
  • Josh 2:20But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be free from the oath which you have made us swear.”
  • Josh 5:6For the sons of Israel had walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, were completely destroyed because they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh, to whom Yahweh had sworn that He would not let them see the land which Yahweh had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  • Josh 6:22Now to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, “Go into the harlot’s house and bring the woman and all she has out of there, as you have sworn to her.”
  • Josh 6:26Then Joshua made them swear an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed before Yahweh is the man who rises up and builds this city Jericho; with the loss of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he shall set up its gates.”
  • Josh 9:15And Joshua made peace with them and cut a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
  • Josh 9:18But the sons of Israel did not strike them down because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh the God of Israel. And the whole congregation grumbled against the leaders.
  • Josh 9:19Then all the leaders said to the whole congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel, so now we cannot touch them.
  • Josh 9:20This we will do to them, even let them live, so that wrath will not be upon us for the oath which we swore to them.”
  • Josh 14:9So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever because you have followed Yahweh my God fully.’
  • Josh 21:43So Yahweh gave Israel all the land which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they possessed it and lived in it.
  • Josh 21:44And Yahweh gave them rest on every side, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers, and no one of all their enemies stood before them; Yahweh gave all their enemies into their hand.
  • Josh 23:7so that you will not go along with these nations, these which remain among you, and you will not mention the name of their gods, and you will not make anyone swear by them, and you will not serve them, and you will not bow down to them.
  • Judg 2:1Then the angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,
  • Judg 2:15Wherever they went, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken and as Yahweh had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.
  • Judg 15:12And they said to him, “We have come down to bind you so that we may give you into the hand of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you yourselves will not kill me.”
  • Judg 21:1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”
  • Judg 21:7What shall we do for wives for those who are left? But we have sworn by Yahweh not to give them any of our daughters in marriage.”
  • Judg 21:18But we cannot give them wives of our daughters.” For the sons of Israel had sworn, saying, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.”
  • 1 Sam 3:14Now therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.”
  • 1 Sam 14:27But Jonathan had not heard when his father put the people under a sworn oath; therefore, he put out the end of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened.
  • 1 Sam 14:28Then one of the people answered and said, “Your father strictly put the people under a sworn oath, saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats food today.’” And the people were weary.
  • 1 Sam 19:6And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”
  • 1 Sam 20:3Yet David swore again, saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your sight, and he has said, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, there is hardly a step between me and death.”
  • 1 Sam 20:17And Jonathan made David swear again because of his love for him, because he loved him as he loved his own soul.
  • 1 Sam 20:42And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, inasmuch as we have sworn to each other in the name of Yahweh, saying, ‘Yahweh will be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed forever.’” Then he rose and departed, while Jonathan went into the city.
  • 1 Sam 24:21So now swear to me by Yahweh that you will not cut off my seed after me and that you will not destroy my name from my father’s household.”
  • 1 Sam 24:22So David swore to Saul. And Saul went to his home, but David and his men went up to the fortress.
  • 1 Sam 28:10Then Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, “As Yahweh lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing.”
  • 1 Sam 30:15Then David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this band?” And he said, “Swear to me by God that you will not put me to death or surrender me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this band.”
  • 2 Sam 3:9May God do so to Abner, and more also, if as Yahweh has sworn to David, I do not do this for him,
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