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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 35 times in 35 verses in 'Deu' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:8 - Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:34 - And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:35

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:14 - And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21 - Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:31 - (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 - And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:13 - Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18 - And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:23 - And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:12 - Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13 - And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:1 - All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:18 - But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:5 - Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:27 - Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:11 - And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:20 - Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:9 - And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:21 - That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:8 - And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:3 - And thou shalt go 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 country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:15 - Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:9 - The LORD shall establish thee an 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:13 - That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:20 - That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:7 - And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20 - For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21 - And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:23 - And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:40 - For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:4 - And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware 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.
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