Senses
1. swear, take an oath — To swear an oath or make a solemn vow, binding oneself by invoking a higher authority. Encompasses all tense/aspect forms of the verb: Jesus' teaching against swearing oaths (Matt 5:34, 36), the discourse on what one swears by (Matt 23:16-22), Peter's denial under oath (Matt 26:74; Mark 14:71), God's oath to Abraham (Luke 1:73; Acts 2:30; Heb 6:13, 16), God swearing in wrath (Heb 3:11, 18; 4:3), the Melchizedek priesthood oath (Heb 7:21), the angel's oath in Revelation (Rev 10:6), and the prohibition against swearing (Jas 5:12). All multilingual glosses converge: Arabic aqsama/halafa, German schworen, French jurer, Hebrew nishba/lehishavea, Hindi shapath khana/kasam khana, Korean maengsehada, Spanish jurar. 26×
AR["أَقسَمَ","أَقْسَمَ","أَنْ-يُقْسِمَ","الحالِفُ","تَحْلِفُوا","يَحلِفُ","يَحْلِفُ"]·ben["তিনি-শপথ-করলেন","শপথ-করতে","শপথ-করলেন","শপথ-করার","শপথ-করিলেন","শপথ-করে","শপথ-করেছিলেন"]·DE["schwoeren","schwört"]·EN["having-sworn","he-swore","swears","swore","to-swear"]·FR["jurer"]·heb["יִשָּׁבַע","לְ-הִשָּׁבֵעַ","לְ-הִשָּׁבַע","לְהִשָּׁבֵעַ","לְהִשָׁבֵעַ","נִשְׁבַּע","נִשְׁבָּע"]·HI["उसने","उसने-शपथ-खाई","कसम-खाने","खाई","शपथ-खाई","शपथ-खाए","शपथ-खाता-है","शपथ-खाना","शपथ-खानेवाला","शपथ-ली","शपथ-लेने,"]·ID["Dia-bersumpah","Ia-bersumpah","Telah-bersumpah","bersumpah","dia-bersumpah","untuk-bersumpah","yang-bersumpah"]·IT["giurare","nondimeno"]·jav["ingkang-sumpah","sampun-dipun-sumpahaken","sampun-sumpah","sumpah"]·KO["그-","맹세하기-를","맹세하기를","맹세하라","맹세하면","맹세하셨느냐","맹세하셨으니","맹세하신","맹세하였으니","맹세한-자는","맹세한다","맹세했다"]·PT["Jurou","a-jurar","jurar","jurou","para-jurar"]·RU["Клялся","божиться","клялся","клянётся","клясться","поклявшийся","поклялся"]·ES["Juró","a-jurar","jura","jurar","jure","juró","que-juró"]·SW["-","Ameapa","akaapa","aliapa","alimwapia","ape","kuapa","kwa"]·TR["Yemin-etti","ona","yaptı","yemin-eden","yemin-eder","yemin-ederse","yemin-etmek","yemin-etmeye","yemin-etti"]·urd["قسم-کھائی","قسم-کھائے","قسم-کھاتا-ہے","قسم-کھانا","قسم-کھانے-والا","قسم-کھانے-کو","کھائی"]
Matt 5:34, Matt 5:36, Matt 23:16, Matt 23:16, Matt 23:18, Matt 23:18, Matt 23:20, Matt 23:20, Matt 23:21, Matt 23:21, Matt 23:22, Matt 23:22 (+14 more)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
ὄμνῡμι, Refs 5th c.BC+; imperative ὄμνῠθι Refs 8th c.BC+; 3rd.pers. singular ὀμνύτω Refs; 3rd.pers. plural ὀμνύντων. Foed. cited in Refs 5th c.BC+: imperfect ὤμνυν Refs 5th c.BC+: also (from present ὀμνύω) 3rd.pers. singular imperative ὀμνῠέτω Refs 8th c.BC+; participle ὀμνύουσα Refs 4th c.BC+: imperfect ὤμνῠον Refs 8th c.BC+ (for present indicative the Trag. and Refs 5th c.BC+ which also occurs…