22 occurrences in 10 translations

'Swearing' in the Bible

And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Verse ConceptsProof, As EvidenceSin BearerWitnesses, LegalAdjurationGuiltResponsibilityWitnessingSwearingMoralityRemoving People From Your LifeMaking Mistakestestimonypartnershipconsequencestestifyingperformance

or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things that a man does, sinning therein;

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsSwearing Oaths FalselyAvoiding Deceitlosing a loved oneMissing SomeoneBeing LostFeeling LostSwearingLoss Of A Loved OneLosing Someone

at this point the priest must 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 thigh shrivel and your belly swell.

Verse ConceptsWasteThighsSwellingPeople Bound By OathsSwearing

And the king doth rejoice in God, Boast himself doth every one swearing by Him, But stopped is the mouth of those speaking lies!

Verse ConceptsMutenessSilenceSwearing ByThe End Of Liars

The whole is as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as is the good, so is the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath.

Verse ConceptsApparent InjusticeNot Swearing OathsClean And Unclean

In that day there are five cities in the land of Egypt, Speaking the lip of Canaan, And swearing to Jehovah of Hosts, 'The city of destruction,' is said of one.

Verse ConceptsLanguagesFive ThingsCities Under Attack

Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, Who are called by the name of Israel, And from the waters of Judah came out, Who are swearing by the name of Jehovah, And of the God of Israel make mention, Not in truth nor in righteousness.

Verse ConceptseagernessPerjuryProfessingSwearing Oaths FalselyGod Renaming PeopleSwearingListening To Godisrael

So that he who is blessing himself in the earth, Doth bless himself In the God of faithfulness, And he who is swearing in the earth, Doth swear by the God of faithfulness, Because the former distresses have been forgotten, And because they have been hid from Mine eyes.

Verse ConceptsLeaving The Past BehindPast, TheGod Is TruthfulBeing Hidden From GodHidden From GodSwearing ByFamily ProblemsBlessing OthersSwearing

When they say, “As the Lord lives,”they are swearing falsely.

Verse ConceptsPerjurySwearing Oaths Falsely

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

Verse ConceptsBad LanguagedrynessPower, HumanCursingDry PlacesDrawbacks To Man's PowerSwearingAbuseadultry

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Verse ConceptsAdulterersDebaucheryStealingCrude LanguageNot Swearing OathsThose Who Committed AdulterySwearingadultry

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Verse ConceptsBad LanguageInjustice, Examples OfLawsuitsPerjuryFurrowsPoisonTreatyWeedsCursingSwearing Oaths FalselyMere TalkNo Justice

Those who have been swearing oaths by the sin of Samaria, or who say, "As your god lives, Dan"' or who say, "As the way of Beer-sheba lives"' will fall, and will never rise again."

Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedHarlotsLiving ThingsShame Of IdolatrySwearing

You laid bare the nakedness of your bow, swearing oaths [with the] arrows of [your] word. You split the earth [with] rivers.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Symbol Of StrengthDivision Of WatersThings StrippedWaters DividingPsalm Interjectionsepiphany

And those bowing themselves On the roofs to the host of the heavens, And those bowing themselves, Swearing to Jehovah, and swearing by Malcham,

Verse ConceptsAstrologyFalse GodsRoofAltars, PaganHousetopsAnimismRooftopBowing Before GodBowing To False GodsSwearing By

'I have sent it out,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing {falsely by my name}, and it will spend the night in that house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.'"

Verse ConceptsSwearing Oaths FalselyBuilding Stones RejectedHouses Under AttackWood And StoneSwearingflyingthieves

But he began to invoke a curse [on himself] and to swear [an oath], “I do not know this man you are talking about!”

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessNot Knowing About ChristSwearing

There were more than forty [men] who formed this plot [and swore this oath].

Verse ConceptsFortiesConspiracy

And by how much it was not without the swearing of an oath;

Verse ConceptsPriesthood, In NtGod Swearing Blessings

(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent of it, Thou art priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec;)

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfConsistencyAssurance, basis ofJesus Christ, Eternity OfGod Is UnchangeableGod Swearing BlessingsNot Swearing OathsGod ReturningNew Testament Claiming Old Testament Is Inspired

For the law constitutes men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the swearing of the oath which is after the law, a Son perfected for ever.

Verse ConceptsJesus Christ, Eternity OfGod, Perfection OfPriesthood, In NtConsecrationUnblemishmentChrist Made PerfectRivers

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אלה 
'alah 
Usage: 7

אלה 
'alah 
Usage: 35

ὀμνύω 
Omnuo 
Usage: 15

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