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Lexicon :: Strong's G3660 - omnyō

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ὀμνύω
Transliteration
omnyō (Key)
Pronunciation
om-noo'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A prolonged form of a primary but obsolete omo, for which another prolonged form (omoo {om-o'-o}) is used in certain tenses
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:176,683

Strong’s Definitions

ὀμνύω omnýō, om-noo'-o; a prolonged form of a primary, but obsolete ὄμω ómō, for which another prolonged form ὀμόω omóō om-o'-o is used in certain tenses; to swear, i.e. take (or declare on) oath:—swear.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x

The KJV translates Strong's G3660 in the following manner: swear (27x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x
The KJV translates Strong's G3660 in the following manner: swear (27x).

  1. to swear

  2. to affirm, promise, threaten, with an oath

  3. in swearing to call a person or thing as witness, to invoke, swear by

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὀμνύω omnýō, om-noo'-o; a prolonged form of a primary, but obsolete ὄμω ómō, for which another prolonged form ὀμόω omóō om-o'-o is used in certain tenses; to swear, i.e. take (or declare on) oath:—swear.
STRONGS G3660:
ὀμνύω (Matthew 23:20; Matthew 26:74; Hebrews 6:16; James 5:12; (Winer's Grammar, 24)) and ὄμνυμι (ὀμνύναι, Mark 14:71 G L T Tr WH (cf. B. 45 (39))) form their tenses from ὈΜΟΩ; hence, 1 aorist ὤμοσα; the Sept. for נִשְׁבַּע; to swear; to affirm, promise, threaten, with an oath: absolutely, followed by direct discourse, Matthew 26:74; Mark 14:71; Hebrews 7:21; followed by εἰ, Hebrews 3:11; Hebrews 4:3; see εἰ I. 5. ὀμνύειν ὅρκον (often so in Greek writings from Homer down (Winer's Grammar, 226 (212))) πρός τινα, to one (Homer, Odyssey 14, 331; 19, 288), Luke 1:73; ὀμνύειν with the dative of the person to whom one promises or threatens something with an oath: followed by direct discourse Mark 6:23; by an infinitive (Winer's Grammar, 331 (311)), Hebrews 3:18; with ὅρκῳ added, Acts 2:30 (Winer's Grammar, 603 (561)); τίνι τί, Acts 7:17 (Rec. i. e. genitive by attraction; cf. Buttmann, § 143, 8; Winer's Grammar, § 24, 1). that by which one swears is indicated by an accusative, τινα or τί (so in classical Greek from Homer down (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 32, 1 b. γ.; Buttmann, 147 (128))), in swearing to call a person or thing as witness, to invoke, swear by (Isaiah 65:16; Josephus, Antiquities 5, 1, 2; 7, 14, 5); τόν οὐρανόν, τήν γῆν, James 5:12; with prepositions (cf. Buttmann, as above): κατά τίνος (see κατά, I. 2 a.), Hebrews 6:13, 16 (Genesis 22:16; Genesis 31:54; 1 Samuel 28:10 (Complutensian); Isaiah 45:23; Isaiah 62:8; Amos 4:2; Demosthenes, p. 553, 17; 553, 26 (others, ἐπομνύειν), etc.; κατά πάντων ὠμνυε θεῶν, Long. past. 4, 16); in imitation of the Hebrew נִשְׁבַּע followed by בְּ, ἐν τίνι is used (Winers Grammar, 389 (364); Buttmann, the passage cited; see ἐν, I. 8{b}): Matthew 5:34, 36; Matthew 23:16, 18, 20-22; Revelation 10:6; εἰς εἰ, with the mind directed unto (Winers Grammar, 397 (371); Buttmann, as above; see εἰς, B. II. 2 a.), Matthew 5:35.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
22:16; 31:54
1 Samuel
28:10
Isaiah
45:23; 62:8; 65:16
Amos
4:2
Matthew
5:34; 5:35; 5:36; 23; 23:16; 23:18; 23:20; 26:74; 26:74
Mark
6:23; 14:71; 14:71
Luke
1:73
Acts
2:30; 7:17
Hebrews
3:11; 3:18; 4:3; 6:13; 6:16; 6:16; 7:21
James
5:12; 5:12
Revelation
10:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3660 matches the Greek ὀμνύω (omnyō),
which occurs 155 times in 150 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 21:23–Deu 19:8)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:23 - “Now therefore, swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, with my offspring, or with my posterity; but that according to the kindness that I have done to you, you will do to me and to the land in which you have dwelt.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:24 - And Abraham said, “I will swear.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:31 - Therefore he called that place Beersheba,[fn] because the two of them swore an oath there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:16 - and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:7 - “The LORD God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants[fn] I give this land,’ He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:9 - So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - Then Jacob said, “Swear to me as of this day.” So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3 - “Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:31 - Then they arose early in the morning and swore an oath with one another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:53 - “The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their father judge between us.” And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:31 - Then he said, “Swear to me.” And he swore to him. So Israel bowed himself on the head of the bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:24 - And Joseph said to his brethren, “I am dying; but God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - “And it shall be, when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:11 - “And it shall be, when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and your fathers, and gives it to you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:8 - “If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbor’s goods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - “Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Depart and go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - ‘Or if a person swears, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man may pronounce by an oath, and he is unaware of it—when he realizes it, then he shall be guilty in any of these matters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:3 - “or if he has found what was lost and lies concerning it, and swears falsely—in any one of these things that a man may do in which he sins:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:5 - “or all that about which he has sworn falsely. He shall restore its full value, add one-fifth more to it, and give it to whomever it belongs, on the day of his trespass offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:12 - ‘And you shall not swear by My name falsely, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - “Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16 - ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:23 - “they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - “If a man makes a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by some agreement, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:10 - “So the LORD’s anger was aroused on that day, and He swore an oath, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:11 - ‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:8 - ‘See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:34 - “And the LORD heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and took an oath, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:35 - ‘Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:14 - “And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the LORD had sworn to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21 - “Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I would not cross over the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:31 - “(for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 - “So it shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:13 - “You shall fear the LORD your God and serve Him, and shall take oaths in His name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18 - “And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land of which the LORD swore to your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:23 - ‘Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - “but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:12 - “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13 - “And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:1 - “Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:18 - “And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:5 - “It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:27 - ‘Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:11 - “Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:20 - “You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:9 - “and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:21 - “that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - “So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:8 - “Now if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you the land which He promised to give to your fathers,

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