Original Language Studio
Numbers 5:19
“And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:” (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
- וְ — conjunction
- הִשְׁבִּ֨יעַ — verb Hiphil, sequential perfect, 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.