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H7650 · שָׁבַע

shâbaʻ · shaw-bah' · swear, charge, oath, adjure

H7650 (shâbaʻ, pronounced shaw-bah') is the Hebrew word שָׁבַע in Strong’s dictionary: to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times). It appears 186 times in 175 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).

Strong’s entry

Original word
שָׁבַע (Hebrew)
Transliteration
shâbaʻ
Pronunciation
shaw-bah'
Derivation
a primitive root; properly to be complete, but used only as a denominative from H7651 (שֶׁבַע);
Definition
to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
Rendered in the KJV
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.

In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)

186 occurrences in 175 verses (185 with English words of their own, 1 in the original with no English word of their own).

How the BSB renders it

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Genesis 17 · Exodus 5 · Leviticus 4 · Numbers 8 · Deuteronomy 33 · Joshua 15 · Judges 6 · 1 Samuel 11 · 2 Samuel 6 · 1 Kings 10 · 2 Kings 2 · 2 Chronicles 4 · Ezra 1 · Nehemiah 2 · Psalms 12 · Ecclesiastes 1 · Song of Solomon 5 · Isaiah 7 · Jeremiah 13 · Ezekiel 2 · Daniel 1 · Hosea 1 · Amos 4 · Micah 1 · Zephaniah 1 · Zechariah 2 · Malachi 1

First 30 of 175 verses

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