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Word Study · Strong's H7650 · Hebrew

שָׁבַע

shaba

shaw-bah'

Strong's 1890 spelling: shâbaʻ

to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)

Rendered in the KJV 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.

  • 186
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 27 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 114
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 186 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 114

  • נִשְׁבַּ֥ע10
  • נִשְׁבַּ֖ע7
  • נִשְׁבַּ֧ע6
  • נִשְׁבַּ֤ע5
  • וַיִּשָּׁבַ֖ע4
  • וַיִּשָּׁבַ֨ע4
  • נִשְׁבַּ֨ע4
  • נִשְׁבַּ֖עְתִּי4
  • נִשְׁבַּ֣עְתִּי4
  • נִשְׁבַּ֥עְתִּי4
  • הִשְׁבַּעְתָּֽנוּ׃3
  • וַיִּשָּׁבַ֣ע3

and 102 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 79

  • he swore26
  • I swore15
  • and he swore an oath14
  • I swear8
  • he had sworn7
  • and he swore6
  • you swore5
  • he has sworn4
  • I adjure4
  • the [one who] swears an oath4
  • and he made to swear an oath3
  • and they swore an oath3

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 46

  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular45
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), completed action · 1st person common singular27
  • Hc/VNw3ms20
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), completed action · 2nd person masculine singular8
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), completed action · 3rd person common plural7
  • Hc/VNw3mp5
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic he5
  • Hc/Vhw3ms4
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular4
  • verb · causative (hiphil), completed action · 1st person common singular4
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), completed action · 1st person common plural4
  • Hc/Vhq3ms3
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HVNp3ms · 45
  • HVNp1cs · 27
  • Hc/VNw3ms · 20
  • HVNp2ms · 8
  • HVNp3cp · 7
  • Hc/VNw3mp · 5
  • HVNv2ms/Sh · 5
  • Hc/Vhw3ms · 4
  • HTd/VNrmsa · 4
  • HVhp1cs · 4
  • HVNp1cp · 4
  • Hc/Vhq3ms · 3

All 186, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Deuteronomy carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis19 occurrences
Exodus6 occurrences
Leviticus4 occurrences
Numbers8 occurrences
Deuteronomy33 occurrences
Joshua16 occurrences
Judges6 occurrences
1 Samuel12 occurrences
2 Samuel6 occurrences
1 Kings10 occurrences
2 Kings2 occurrences
2 Chronicles4 occurrences
Ezra2 occurrences
Nehemiah2 occurrences
Psalms12 occurrences
Ecclesiastes1 occurrence
Song of Solomon5 occurrences
Isaiah10 occurrences
Jeremiah14 occurrences
Ezekiel2 occurrences
Daniel1 occurrence
Hosea1 occurrence
Amos4 occurrences
Micah1 occurrence
Zephaniah2 occurrences
Zechariah2 occurrences
Malachi1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).