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H7650שָׁבַעsha.va

to swearPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 19
  2. 6
  3. 4
  4. 8
  5. 33
  6. 16
  7. 6
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 12
  10. 6
  11. 10
  12. 2
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 4
  15. 2
  16. 2
  17. Esther: 0
  18. Job: 0
  19. 12
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. 1
  22. 5
  23. 10
  24. 14
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 2
  27. 1
  28. 1
  29. Joel: 0
  30. 4
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. 1
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. 2
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 2
  39. 1

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186 occurrences in 175 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Deuteronomy 10:11

    And the LORD said unto me: 'Arise, go before the people, causing them to set forward, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give unto them.'

    נִשְׁבַּ֥עְתִּי nish.Ba'.ti “I swore”

  2. Deuteronomy 10:20

    Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; Him shalt thou serve; and to Him shalt thou cleave, and by His name shalt thou swear.

    תִּשָּׁבֵֽעַ׃ ti.sha.Ve.a' “you will swear oaths”

  3. Deuteronomy 11:9

    and that ye may prolong your days upon the land, which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

    נִשְׁבַּ֨ע nish.Ba' “he swore”

  4. Deuteronomy 11:21

    that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, upon the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

    נִשְׁבַּ֧ע nish.Ba' “he swore”

  5. Deuteronomy 13:18

    And there shall cleave nought of the devoted thing to thy hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as He hath sworn unto thy fathers;

    נִשְׁבַּ֖ע nish.Ba' “he swore”

  6. Deuteronomy 19:8

    And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy border, as He hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which He promised to give unto thy fathers--

    נִשְׁבַּ֖ע nish.Ba' “he swore”

  7. Deuteronomy 26:3

    And thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him: 'I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the land which the LORD swore unto our fathers to give us.'

    נִשְׁבַּ֧ע nish.Ba' “he swore”

  8. Deuteronomy 26:15

    Look forth from Thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Thy people Israel, and the land which Thou hast given us, as Thou didst swear unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.'

    נִשְׁבַּ֙עְתָּ֙ nish.Ba'.ta “you swore”

  9. Deuteronomy 28:9

    The LORD will establish thee for a holy people unto Himself, as He hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in His ways.

    נִֽשְׁבַּֽע־ nish.ba'- “he swore”

  10. Deuteronomy 28:11

    And the LORD will make thee over-abundant for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers to give thee.

    נִשְׁבַּ֧ע nish.Ba' “he swore”

  11. Deuteronomy 29:12

    that He may establish thee this day unto Himself for a people, and that He may be unto thee a God, as He spoke unto thee, and as He swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

    נִשְׁבַּע֙ nish.Ba' “he swore”

  12. Deuteronomy 30:20

    to love the LORD thy God, to hearken to His voice, and to cleave unto Him; for that is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

    נִשְׁבַּ֨ע nish.Ba' “he swore”

  13. Deuteronomy 31:7

    And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel: 'Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt go with this people into the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit i

    נִשְׁבַּ֧ע nish.Ba' “he swore”

  14. Deuteronomy 31:20

    For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, flowing with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten their fill, and waxen fat; and turned unto other gods, and served them, and despised Me, and broken My covenant;

    נִשְׁבַּ֣עְתִּי nish.Ba'.ti “I swore”

  15. Deuteronomy 31:21

    then it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are come upon them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed; for I know their imagination how they do even now, before I

    נִשְׁבָּֽעְתִּי׃ nish.Ba.'e.ti “I swore”

  16. Deuteronomy 31:23

    And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said: 'Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore unto them; and I will be with thee.'

    נִשְׁבַּ֣עְתִּי nish.Ba'.ti “I swore”

  17. Deuteronomy 34:4

    And the LORD said unto him: 'This is the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying: I will give it unto thy seed; I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.'

    נִ֠שְׁבַּעְתִּי Nish.ba'.ti “I swore”

  18. Joshua 1:6

    Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I swore unto their fathers to give them.

    נִשְׁבַּ֥עְתִּי nish.Ba'.ti “I swore”

  19. Joshua 2:12

    Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with my father's house--and give me a true token--

    הִשָּֽׁבְעוּ־ hi.sha.ve.'u- “swear”

  20. Joshua 2:17

    And the men said unto her: 'We will be guiltless of this thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

    הִשְׁבַּעְתָּֽנוּ׃ (הִשְׁבַּעְתָּֽ) hish.ba'.Ta. “you made swear”

  21. Joshua 2:20

    But if thou utter this our business, then we will be guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.'

    הִשְׁבַּעְתָּֽנוּ׃ (הִשְׁבַּעְתָּֽ) hish.ba'.Ta. “you made swear”

  22. Joshua 5:6

    For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD; unto whom the LORD swore that He would not let t

    נִשְׁבַּ֤ע nish.Ba' “he had sworn”נִשְׁבַּ֨ע nish.Ba' “he had sworn”

  23. Joshua 6:22

    And Joshua said unto the two men that had spied out the land: 'Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye swore unto her.'

    נִשְׁבַּעְתֶּ֖ם nish.ba'.Tem “you swore”

  24. Joshua 6:26

    And Joshua charged the people with an oath at that time, saying: 'Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city, even Jericho; with the loss of his first-born shall he lay the foundation thereof, and with the loss of his younge

    וַיַּשְׁבַּ֣ע (יַּשְׁבַּ֣ע) i.yash.Ba' “he administered an oath”

  25. Joshua 9:15

    And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the princes of the congregation swore unto them.

    וַיִּשָּׁבְע֣וּ (יִּשָּׁבְע֣וּ) i.yi.sha.ve.'U “they swore an oath”