Oath
שְׁבוּעָהStrong’s H7621shevuah (she-vu-ah)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shevuah is the Hebrew word usually translated “oath”, “oath of” and “from oath your”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.”
Meaning
- Oath, curseoath · oath (of Jehovah)
How it's translated
- the oath 7
- oath of 5
- an oath 2
- from oath your 2
- and oath his 2
- from oath my 1
- in an oath 1
- with oath of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 4
- Joshua 3
- Genesis 2
- Nehemiah 2
- Ecclesiastes 2
- Exodus 1
21 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 8:17In contextAnd let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
- Genesis 24:8And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.
- Genesis 26:3Sojourn 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;
- Exodus 22:11Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
- Leviticus 5:4Or 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.
- Numbers 5:21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
All 29 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁבוּעָה shevuah · oath
1) oath, curse 1a) oath 1a1) attesting of innocence 1a2) curse 1b) oath (of Jehovah)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “oath” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OATH, noun
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.