שָׁבַע

sha.va

Hebrew H7650 Verb 186 occurrences in 175 verses
שָׁבַע to swear

1. to swear, adjure

a. (Qal) sworn (participle)

b. (Niphal)

1. to swear, take an oath

2. to swear (of Jehovah by Himself)

3. to curse

c. (Hiphil)

1. to cause to take an oath

2. to adjure

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Concordance 175 verses

  1. 2 Samuel 3:35 וַיִּשָּׁבַ֨ע

    Then all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”

  2. 2 Samuel 19:7 נִשְׁבַּ֜עְתִּי

    Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”

  3. 2 Samuel 19:23 וַיִּשָּׁ֥בַֽע

    So the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king swore an oath to him.

  4. 2 Samuel 21:2 נִשְׁבְּע֣וּ

    At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)

  5. 2 Samuel 21:17 נִשְׁבְּעוּ֩

    But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You must never again go out with us to battle, so that the lamp of Israel may not be extinguished.”

  6. 1 Kings 1:13 נִשְׁבַּ֤עְתָּ

    Go at once to King David and say, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your maidservant, “Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’

  7. 1 Kings 1:17 נִשְׁבַּ֜עְתָּ

    “My lord,” she replied, “you yourself swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God: ‘Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.’

  8. 1 Kings 1:29 וַיִּשָּׁבַ֥ע

    And the king swore an oath, saying, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,

  9. 1 Kings 1:30 נִשְׁבַּ֨עְתִּי

    I will carry out this very day exactly what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”

  10. 1 Kings 1:51 יִשָּֽׁבַֽע־

    It was reported to Solomon: “Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon, and he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon first swear to me not to put his servant to the sword.’”

  11. 1 Kings 2:8 וָאֶשָּׁ֨בַֽע

    Keep an eye on Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim who is with you. He called down bitter curses against me on the day I went to Mahanaim, but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will never put you to the sword.’

  12. 1 Kings 2:23 וַיִּשָּׁבַע֙

    Then King Solomon swore by the LORD: “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if Adonijah has not made this request at the expense of his life.

  13. 1 Kings 2:42 הִשְׁבַּעְתִּ֣יךָ

    the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the LORD and warn you, ‘On the day you leave and go elsewhere, know for sure that you will die’? And you told me, ‘The sentence is fair; I will comply.’

  14. 1 Kings 18:10 וְהִשְׁבִּ֤יעַ

    As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent someone to search for you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that kingdom or nation swear that they had not found you.

  15. 1 Kings 22:16 מַשְׁבִּעֶ֑ךָ

    But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”

  16. 2 Kings 11:4 וַיַּשְׁבַּ֤ע

    Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, and the guards, and had them brought into the house of the LORD. There he made a covenant with them and put them under oath. He showed them the king’s son

  17. 2 Kings 25:24 וַיִּשָּׁבַ֨ע

    And Gedaliah took an oath before them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.”

  18. 2 Chronicles 15:14 וַיִּשָּֽׁבְעוּ֙

    They took an oath to the LORD with a loud voice, with shouting, trumpets, and rams’ horns.

  19. 2 Chronicles 15:15 נִשְׁבָּ֔עוּ

    And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn it with all their heart. They had sought Him earnestly, and He was found by them. So the LORD gave them rest on every side.

  20. 2 Chronicles 18:15 מַשְׁבִּיעֶ֑ךָ

    But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”

  21. 2 Chronicles 36:13 הִשְׁבִּיע֖וֹ

    He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.

  22. Ezra 10:5 וַיַּשְׁבַּ֣עוַיִּשָּׁבֵֽעוּ׃

    So Ezra got up and made the leading priests, Levites, and all Israel take an oath to do what had been said. And they took the oath.

  23. Nehemiah 5:12 וָֽאַשְׁבִּיעֵ֔ם

    “We will restore it,” they replied, “and will require nothing more from them. We will do as you say.” So I summoned the priests and required of the nobles and officials an oath that they would do what they had promised.

  24. Nehemiah 13:25 וָאַשְׁבִּיעֵ֣ם

    I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

  25. Psalms 15:4 נִשְׁבַּ֥ע

    who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,

  26. Psalms 24:4 נִשְׁבַּ֣ע

    He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

  27. Psalms 63:11 הַנִּשְׁבָּ֣ע

    But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.

  28. Psalms 89:3 נִ֝שְׁבַּ֗עְתִּי

    You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:

  29. Psalms 89:35 נִשְׁבַּ֣עְתִּי

    Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David—

  30. Psalms 89:49 נִשְׁבַּ֥עְתָּ

    Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?

  31. Psalms 95:11 נִשְׁבַּ֥עְתִּי

    So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”

  32. Psalms 102:8 נִשְׁבָּֽעוּ׃

    All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.

  33. Psalms 110:4 נִשְׁבַּ֤ע

    The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

  34. Psalms 119:106 נִשְׁבַּ֥עְתִּי

    I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.

  35. Psalms 132:2 נִ֭שְׁבַּע

    how he swore an oath to the LORD, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

  36. Psalms 132:11 נִשְׁבַּֽע־

    The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

  37. Ecclesiastes 9:2 הַנִּשְׁבָּ֕ע

    It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.

  38. Song of Solomon 2:7 הִשְׁבַּ֨עְתִּי

    O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

  39. Song of Solomon 3:5 הִשְׁבַּ֨עְתִּי

    O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

  40. Song of Solomon 5:8 הִשְׁבַּ֥עְתִּי

    O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.

  41. Song of Solomon 5:9 הִשְׁבַּעְתָּֽנוּ׃

    How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?

  42. Song of Solomon 8:4 הִשְׁבַּ֥עְתִּי

    O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

  43. Isaiah 14:24 נִשְׁבַּ֛ע

    The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

  44. Isaiah 19:18 וְנִשְׁבָּע֖וֹת

    In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.

  45. Isaiah 45:23 נִשְׁבַּ֔עְתִּיתִּשָּׁבַ֖ע

    By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.

  46. Isaiah 48:1 הַֽנִּשְׁבָּעִ֣ים׀

    “Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel— but not in truth or righteousness—

  47. Isaiah 54:9 נִשְׁבַּ֗עְתִּינִשְׁבַּ֛עְתִּי

    “For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

  48. Isaiah 62:8 נִשְׁבַּ֧ע

    The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.

  49. Isaiah 65:16 וְהַנִּשְׁבָּ֣עיִשָּׁבַ֖ע

    Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth, and whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from My sight.

  50. Jeremiah 4:2 וְנִשְׁבַּ֙עְתָּ֙

    and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”

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