שָׁבַע
shâbaʻ · shaw-bah'
to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root; properly to be complete, but used only as a denominative from H7651 (שֶׁבַע);
to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: 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.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the house, what is within › to see and know
To consume, to destroy of the house, what is within that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁבַע above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
186 occurrences · 186 OT · 0 NT · 114 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- sware27 · 24%
- which i sware12 · 11%
- hath sworn10 · 9%
- which he sware10 · 9%
- swear7 · 6%
- and sware5 · 4%
- to swear4 · 4%
- had sworn4 · 4%
- i charge4 · 4%
- and swear3 · 3%
- i have sworn3 · 3%
- which thou swarest2 · 2%
- and he sware2 · 2%
- charged2 · 2%
- shall i adjure2 · 2%
- made me swear2 · 2%
- and that swear2 · 2%
- shall swear2 · 2%
- and he that sweareth2 · 2%
- and they sware2 · 2%
- and i will make thee swear1 · 1%
- by myself have i sworn1 · 1%
- because there they sware1 · 1%
- i will swear1 · 1%
- now therefore swear1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.