# H7650 שָׁבַע

שָׁבַע (shâbaʻ), Strong’s H7650: to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times) KJV: adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full (by mistake for H7646……

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*shâbaʻ* — to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)

KJV: adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full (by mistake for H7646…

Derived from [שֶׁבַע shebaʻ](https://besorah.bible/word/H7651) (seven)

Occurs 186 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [שָׁבַע] 186 vb. swear (prob. so to say, seven oneself, or bind oneself by seven things)
- Qal Pt. pass. those sworn with (= who have sworn) oaths
- Niph.;—swear, take an oath
- Hiph.
- 1 cause take an oath, subj. always man
- 2 adjure

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 21:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=23) — Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son…
- [Genesis 21:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=24) — Abraham said, “I will swear.”
- [Genesis 21:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=31) — Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.
- [Genesis 22:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=16) — and said, “‘I have sworn by myself,’ says the LORD, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son…
- [Genesis 24:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=3) — I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my…
- [Genesis 24:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=7) — The LORD, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who…
- [Genesis 24:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=9) — The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
- [Genesis 24:37](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=37) — My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose…
- [Genesis 25:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=33) — Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.
- [Genesis 26:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=3) — Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these…