59 occurrences in 13 translations

'Oaths' in the Bible

So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.

Verse ConceptsSealing A CovenantWellsPeople Naming Things

In the morning they arose early and exchanged oaths; then Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in peace.

Verse ConceptsSealing A CovenantRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyGoing In Peace

or when a person swears an oath, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips, whether to do evil or to do good, with regard to anything which the individual might speak thoughtlessly in an oath, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty with regard to one of these oaths --

Verse ConceptsCarelessnessOaths, HumanAbsence Of ThoughtSin Made KnownSwearing Oaths FalselyRash PeopleSwearing

In addition to the Sabbaths of the Lord, and in addition to the things you give and the oaths you make and the free offerings to the Lord

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtSabbaths Instituted

If her father, hearing of her oath or the undertaking she has given, says nothing to her, then all her oaths and every undertaking she has given will have force.

But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.

Verse ConceptsGod Will Forgive

If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at the time, then the oaths she made and the undertakings she gave will have force.

And her husband, hearing of it, said nothing to her and did not put a stop to it, then all her oaths and every undertaking she gave will have force.

But if her husband, on hearing of it, made them without force or effect, then whatever she has said about her oaths or her undertaking has no force: her husband has made them without effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

Verse ConceptsGod Will Forgive

But if the days go on, and her husband says nothing whatever to her, then he is giving the support of his authority to her oaths and undertakings, because at the time of hearing them he said nothing to her.

You are to fear Yahweh your God and worship Him. Remain faithful to Him and take oaths in His name.

Verse ConceptsHolding FastClinging To GodSwearing ByFear God!Swearing

And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;

Verse ConceptsOfferingsVowsAnimal Sacrifices, Heave OfferingBringing In The TitheRegulating SacrificesTithes And Offering

Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;

Verse ConceptsGiftsChoicesOfferingsSacred PlacesAnimal Sacrifices, Heave OfferingBringing In The TitheRegulating SacrificesA Place For God's NameTithes And Offering

But the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to take to the place which will be marked out by the Lord:

and Jehovah hath separated him for evil, out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant which is written in this book of the law.

Verse ConceptsSeparationBook of the LawThe Curse Of The LawNatural Disasters

That way, you will not mingle with those nations that remain among you, nor mention the name of their gods, nor make oaths by them, nor serve them, nor worship them.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessParticipation, In SinServanthood, And Worship Of GodSteadfastnessNot Swearing OathsAvoiding ForeignersDo Not Have Other gods

You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PromisesMaking VowsGod Answers PrayerGod Answering Prayers

But the king will rejoice in God; everyone who takes oaths in his name will boast, for the mouths of those who speak lies will be shut up.

Verse ConceptsMutenessSilenceSwearing ByThe End Of Liars

Set me free and rescue me from the hand of [hostile] foreigners,Whose mouth speaks deceit [without restraint],And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Verse ConceptsForeignersenemies, of believersDeceitful TonguesWhat Foreigners Are LikeAvoiding ForeignersEvil For The Right HandThose Who Are LiarsAliensLying And Deceit

I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.

Verse ConceptsFellowship OfferingVowsPeace offerings

It is a danger to a man to say without thought, It is holy, and, after taking his oaths, to be questioning if it is necessary to keep them.

Verse ConceptsCarelessnessPromises, HumanTrapVowsVowsWorldly SnaresMaking VowsDo Not Be RashMaking DecisionsDecision Making

What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?

Verse ConceptsWombWomen's Strength

The same fate [comes] to everyone: to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the wicked, to the clean and to the unclean, to those who sacrifice and to those who do not sacrifice. As [with] the good [man], so also to the sinner; [as with] those who swear an oath, so [also] those who fear oaths.

Verse ConceptsApparent InjusticeNot Swearing OathsClean And Unclean

In that day there will be five towns in the land of Egypt using the language of Canaan, and making oaths to the Lord of armies; and one of them will be named, The Town of the Sun.

Verse ConceptsLanguagesFive ThingsCities Under Attack

"Listen to this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and who have come forth from Judah's loins; you who swear oaths in the name of the LORD and invoke the God of Israel but not in truth, nor in good faith.

Verse ConceptseagernessPerjuryProfessingSwearing Oaths FalselyGod Renaming PeopleSwearingListening To Godisrael

And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.

Verse ConceptsPerjurySwearing Oaths Falsely

How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

Verse ConceptsAdultery, Examples OfProstitutionUnforgivenessHarlotsGod Not ForgivingSwearing ByThose Who Committed Adulterywhores

Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

Verse ConceptsAdulterersBaal Worship, HistoryBaal Worship, Nature OfUnknown GodsSwearing Oaths FalselyDifferent GodsAvoid AdulteryDo Not StealJudged As MurderersThose Who Committed Adulteryadultry

About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?

Verse ConceptsAmbivalence

But they must make sure you learn to follow the religious practices of my people. Once they taught my people to swear their oaths using the name of the god Baal. But then, they must swear oaths using my name, saying, "As surely as the Lord lives, I swear." If they do these things, then they will be included among the people I call my own.

Verse ConceptsOaths, HumanFollowers Of BaalSwearing BySwearing

Yet I, the Lord, say: "A new time will certainly come. People now affirm their oaths with 'I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.'

Verse ConceptsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptSwearing

"So I, the Lord, say: 'A new time will certainly come. People now affirm their oaths with "I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt."

This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You women have said with your mouths, and with your hands you have done what you said, We will certainly give effect to the oaths we have made, to have perfumes burned to the queen of heaven and drink offerings drained out to her: then give effect to your oaths and do them.

Verse ConceptsServing Asherah

But listen to what the Lord has to say, all you people of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt. The Lord says, 'I hereby swear by my own great name that none of the people of Judah who are living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name in their oaths! Never again will any of them use it in an oath saying, "As surely as the Lord God lives."

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Methods Of OtProfaning God's Name

And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.

Verse ConceptsFalse Ways

They speak mere words,taking false oaths while making covenants.So lawsuits break outlike poisonous weeds in the furrows of a 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

See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

Verse ConceptsFeetevangelists, identity ofevangelism, nature ofGospel, Descriptions OfHeraldGood TidingsNeverHow Death Is InevitableMaking VowsFeet In ActionBlessings From The MountainsGod Judges The WickedFestivals ObservedCelebration

Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

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

I will remove those who worship the stars in the sky from their rooftops, those who swear allegiance to the Lord while taking oaths in the name of their 'king,'

Verse ConceptsAstrologyFalse GodsRoofAltars, PaganHousetopsAnimismRooftopBowing Before GodBowing To False GodsSwearing By

Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSwearing Oaths FalselyThe Curse Of The LawSwearing

Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFalse Witnesses, Defined AsPromises, HumanEvil PlansSin, And God's CharacterGod Hating Things

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

Verse ConceptsAdultery, Consequences OfGod, Righteousness OfInjustice, Hated By GodMastersMoney, Stewardship OfOppression, Nature OfOrphansPerjuryPoverty, Attitudes TowardsRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfSexual Sin, Nature OfSuffering, Nature OfSuffering, Of The InnocentWagesWidowsAliens, God's AttitudeHirelingsDivinationStrangersEmployersThreateningsOppressing ForeignersSpeedThe Witness Of GodThose OppressedAdulteryNo Fear Of GodNot Helping WidowsSorceryImmigrantswitches

Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:

Verse ConceptsMaking VowsFalse WaysGod Speaking Of Oldgrandmas

Although the king regretted it, he commanded that it be granted because of his oaths and his guests.

Verse ConceptsGuestsSwearing OathsOther Sad PeopleThe King's OrdersBirthdays Celebrated

So he swore oaths to her: “Whatever you ask me I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

Verse ConceptsFractions, One HalfHalf Of Districts

Though the king was deeply distressed, because of his oaths and the guests he did not want to refuse her.

Verse ConceptsGuestsRashnessOther Sad PeoplePeople UnwillingWhy It HappenedBirthdays Celebrated

But, with curses and oaths, he said, I have no knowledge of the man about whom you are talking.

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessNot Knowing About ChristSwearing

For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,

Verse ConceptsTradeSound DoctrineThe End Of LiarsDefilementgaysSexual ImmoralityBeing GayGay MarriageSame Sex MarriageSexual Purity

For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.

Verse ConceptsConfirmationSwearing OathsSwearing BySwearing

Above all, brothers, do not swear oaths by heaven, by earth, or by any other object. Instead, let your "Yes" mean yes and your "No" mean no! Otherwise, you may fall under condemnation.

Verse ConceptsBad LanguageConsistencyAffirmationsethics, personalOaths, HumanAffirmative ActionConversationHeaven, Glimpsed By HumansCursingSwearing Being ForbiddenAssentingDissentSwearing OathsNot Swearing OathsNo CondemnationSwearing

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אלה 
'alah 
Usage: 35

שׁבוּעה 
Sh@buw`ah 
Usage: 30

שׁבע 
 
Usage: 186

ἀναθεματίζω 
Anathematizo 
Usage: 4

ὅρκος 
Horkos 
Usage: 9

ὁρκωμοσία 
Horkomosia 
Usage: 4

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