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Gematria of Oath

2 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “oath” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 66 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
2
Occurrences
66
Distinct values
2

The 2 Hebrew words rendered “oath”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

אָלָהʼâlâh×36 in the TanakhH423

an imprecation

Standard 36 →Gadol 36Katan 9Siduri (ordinal) 18Atbash 510Perati 926Milui 191

First appearance ·Genesis 24:41בראשית כד:מאמֵאָלָתִי

See all 370 occurrences of the spelling אלה →

שְׁבוּעָהshᵉbûwʻâh×30 in the TanakhH7621

properly, something sworn, i.e. an oath

Standard 383 →Gadol 383Katan 23Siduri (ordinal) 50Atbash 479Perati 94,965Milui 921

First appearance ·Genesis 24:8בראשית כד:חמִשְּׁבֻעָתִי

See all 2 occurrences of the spelling שבועה →

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What is the gematria of oath?

The Tanakh renders “oath” with 2 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: אלה = 36 and שבועה = 383.

How do you say oath in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 2 Hebrew words for “oath”; the most frequent are אלה (ʼâlâh), 36 times; שבועה (shᵉbûwʻâh), 30 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.