Bible Dictionary: Swears

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Greek

3660. omnuo -- to swear, take an oath
... verb Definition to swear, take an oath NASB Word Usage make an oath (1),
make...oath (1), swear (6), swears (10), swore (6), sworn (2). swear. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7650. shaba -- to swear
... 1), put the under oath (1), put them under oath (1), solemn (1), solemnly swear
(1), strictly put (1), swear (40), swearer (1), swearing (1), swears (6), swore ...
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Library

When a Person Swears of his Own Accord, or Wantonly...
... Address 175: When a person swears of his own accord, or wantonly� When
a person swears of his own accord, or wantonly, then the ...
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Whether it is Necessary for Perjury that the Statement Confirmed ...
... Since therefore perjury is incurred through lack of truth, it is incurred likewise
through lack of judgment, as when one swears indiscreetly, and through lack ...
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Whether all Perjury is Sinful?
... Yet sometimes a man swears he will do something unlawful (adultery, for
instance, or murder): and if he does it, he commits a sin. ...
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Whether He Sins who Demands an Oath of a Perjurer?
... Either he knows that he swears truly, or he knows that he swears falsely. ... Much less
therefore would it seem lawful to impose an oath on one who swears falsely. ...
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Whether an Oath is an Act of Religion or Latria?
... Rhet. ii, 53). But he who swears offers nothing to God, but calls God to be his
witness. Therefore swearing is not an act of religion or latria. ...
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The Oath of God: Its Meaning. Moses, when Deprecating God's Wrath ...
... But God also swears. ... Therefore He swears by Himself, in order that you may believe
God, even when He swears that there is besides Himself no other God at all. ...
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The Tenets of the Esseni Continued.
... for them. He likewise swears that he will always aid the just, and keep
faith with all, especially those who are rulers. For, they ...
/.../hippolytus/the refutation of all heresies/chapter xviii the tenets of the.htm

Whether Oaths are Desirable and to be Used Frequently as Something ...
... Objection 2: Further, Jerome, commenting on Mat.5:34, says that "he who swears either
reveres or loves the person by whom he swears." Now reverence and love of ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether oaths are desirable and.htm

Whether an Oath Has a Binding Force?
... Yet sometimes the person who swears and the person to whom he swears have opposite
intentions. Therefore an oath cannot always be binding. ...
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After the Whole People had Been Freed from all Distress...
... And no one can gainsay this; so evident and generally allowed is the fact,
that the man who swears frequently, must also be a perjurer. ...
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Thesaurus

Swears (16 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Swears (16 Occurrences). Matthew 23:16 "Woe to
you, you blind guides, who say,'Whoever swears by the temple ...
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Obligated (9 Occurrences)
... Matthew 23:16 "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say,'Whoever swears by the temple,
it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated ...
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Bound (175 Occurrences)
... Matthew 23:16 "Alas for you, you blind guides, who say, "'Whoever swears by the
Sanctuary it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the Sanctuary, is ...
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Nothing (769 Occurrences)
... Matthew 23:16 "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say,'Whoever swears by the temple,
it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated ...
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Anyone (514 Occurrences)
... Matthew 23:16 "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say,'Whoever swears by the temple,
it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated ...
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Swear (99 Occurrences)
... Matthew 23:16 "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say,'Whoever swears by the temple,
it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated ...
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Offering (850 Occurrences)
... Matthew 23:18 And you say, "'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever
swears by the offering lying on it is bound by the oath.' (WEY BBE NAS). ...
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Guides (24 Occurrences)
... Matthew 23:16 "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say,'Whoever swears by the temple,
it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated ...
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Within (400 Occurrences)
... delight. Listen to Him." (WEY). Matthew 23:21 He who swears by the temple,
swears by it, and by him who was living in it. (See NAS). ...
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Woe (102 Occurrences)
... Matthew 23:16 "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say,'Whoever swears by the temple,
it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated ...
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Bible Concordance

Swears (16 Occurrences)

Matthew 23:16 "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say,'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.'
(WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 23:18 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?'
(WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 23:20 He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.
(WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 23:21 He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.
(WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 23:22 He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.
(WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 5:4 "'Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these.
(WEB NAS)

Leviticus 6:3 or have found that which was lost, and deal falsely therein, and swear to a lie; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein;
(See NIV)

Numbers 30:2 When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
(WEB RSV)

1 Kings 8:31 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be exacted of him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before Thine altar in this house;
(See RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 6:22 If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;
(WEB RSV NIV)

Psalms 15:4 In whose eyes a vile person is despised, but he honoureth them that fear the LORD; he that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;
(See NAS RSV)

Psalms 63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.
(WEB NAS)

Ecclesiastes 9:2 All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner, and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
(See RSV)

Isaiah 65:16 so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
(WEB NAS)

Zechariah 5:3 Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Zechariah 5:4 I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Armies, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Swears

Related Terms

Obligated (9 Occurrences)

Bound (175 Occurrences)

Nothing (769 Occurrences)

Anyone (514 Occurrences)

Swear (99 Occurrences)

Offering (850 Occurrences)

Guides (24 Occurrences)

Within (400 Occurrences)

Woe (102 Occurrences)