'Sware' in the Bible
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba. Because there they sware both of them.
Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spake unto me, and who sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land. He will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.
And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning this matter.
And Jacob said, Swear to me first. And he sware unto him. And he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee. For unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father.
And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the Fear of his father Isaac.
And he said, Swear unto me: and he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.