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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.
Read in context →But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Read in context →9 occurrences in 8 verses.
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shâbaʻ · shaw-bah'
to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
Strong's KJV usage: adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full (by mistake for 7646), take an oath, × straitly, (cause to, make to) swear.
Strong's first: Genesis 21:23Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:5
Open full H7650 profile →omnýō · om-noo'-o
to swear, i.e. take (or declare on) oath
Strong's KJV usage: :--swear.
Strong's first: Matthew 5:34Strong's last: James 5:12
Open full G3660 profile →ʼâlâh · aw-law'
properly, to adjure, i.e. (usually in a bad sense) imprecate
Strong's KJV usage: adjure, curse, swear.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 8:31Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 6:22
Open full H422 profile →nâsâʼ · naw-saw'
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
Strong's KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable ( man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, × needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, swear, take (away, up), × utterly, wear, yield.
Strong's first: Exodus 6:8Strong's last: Isaiah 3:7
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And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
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SWEAR, verb intransitive preterit tense swore. [Eng. veer; Latin assevero.]
1. To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed.
Ye shall not swear by my name falsely. Leviticus 19:12.
But I say unto you, swear not at all. Matthew 5:34.
2. To promise upon oath.
Jacob said, swear to me this day; and he swore to him. Genesis 25:33.
3. To give evidence an oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement. He swore that the prisoner was not present at the riot.
4. To be profane; to practice profaneness.
Certain classes of men are accustomed to swear For men to swear is sinful, disreputable and odious; but for females or ladies to swear appears more abominable and scandalous.
SWEAR, verb transitive To utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God for the truth of the declaration; as, to swear on oath. [This seems to have been the primitive use of swear; that is, to affirm.]
1. To put to an oath; to cause to take an oath; as, to swear witnesses in court; to swear a jury; the witness has been sworn; the judges are sworn into office.
2. To declare or charge upon oath; as, to swear treason against a man.
3. To obtest by an oath.
Now by Apollo, king, thou swear'st thy gods in vain.
To swear the peace against one, to make oath that one is under the actual fear of death or bodily harm from the person; in which case the person must find sureties of the peace.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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