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1 Samuel 20:3
“And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7650 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
- Derivation
- a primitive root; properly to be complete, but used only as a denominative from H7651 (שֶׁבַע);
- KJV renderings
- adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full (by mistake for H7646 (שָׂבַע)), take an oath, [idiom] straitly, (cause to, make to) swear.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּשָּׁבַ֨ע — verb Niphal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 186 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 21:23Genesis 21:24Genesis 21:31Genesis 22:16Genesis 24:3
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שָׁבַע here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.