Lexicon :: Strong's H7621 - šᵊḇûʿâ

“If the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are free from this oath to me, but don’t let my son go back there.”

“stay in this land as an alien, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

“there must be an oath before the LORD between the two of them to determine whether or not he has taken his neighbor’s property. Its owner must accept the oath, and the other man does not have to make restitution.

“Or if someone swears rashly to do what is good or evil ​— ​concerning anything a person may speak rashly in an oath ​— ​without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he incurs guilt in such an instance.

“at this point the priest will make the woman take the oath with the sworn curse, and he is to say to her ​— ​‘May the LORD make you into an object of your people’s cursing and swearing when he makes your womb[fn] shrivel and your belly swell.

“When a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to put himself under an obligation, he must not break his word; he must do whatever he has promised.

“If a woman in her husband’s house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,

“Her husband may confirm or cancel any vow or any sworn obligation to deny herself.

“But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors, he brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

The men said to her, “We will be free from this oath you made us swear,

“And if you report our mission, we are free from the oath you made us swear.”

“This is how we will treat them: we will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”

The Israelites asked, “Who of all the tribes of Israel didn’t come to the LORD with the assembly? ” For a great oath had been taken that anyone who had not come to the LORD at Mizpah would certainly be put to death.

When the troops entered the forest, they saw the flow of honey, but none of them ate any of it[fn] because they feared the oath.

David spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul’s son Jonathan, because of the oath of the LORD that was between David and Jonathan, Saul’s son.

“So why have you not kept the LORD’s oath and the command that I gave you? ”

the covenant he made with Abraham,

swore[fn] to Isaac,

All Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn it wholeheartedly. They had sought him with all sincerity, and he was found by them. So the LORD gave them rest on every side.

For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, since he was a son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.

join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath[fn] to follow the law of God given through God’s servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commands, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.

the covenant he made with Abraham,

swore[fn] to Isaac,

Keep[fn] the king’s command because of your oath made before God.

Everything is the same for everyone: There is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad,[fn] for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so also it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who takes an oath, so also for the one who fears an oath.

“You will leave your name behind

as a curse for my chosen ones,

and the Lord GOD will kill you;

but he will give his servants another name.

in order to establish the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is today.’ ”

I answered, “Amen, LORD.”

“It will seem like false divination to those who have sworn an oath to the Babylonians,[fn] but it will draw attention to their guilt so that they will be captured.

All Israel has broken your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. The promised curse[fn] written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out on us because we have sinned against him.

You took the sheath from your bow;

the arrows are ready[fn] to be used with an oath.[fn]Selah

You split the earth with rivers.

“Do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love perjury, for I hate all this” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration.