Shevuah (Oath)

שְׁבוּעָה

Strong’s # H7621

shᵉbûwʻâh, sheb-oo-aw'; feminine passive participle of H7650; properly, something sworn, i.e. an oath:—curse, oath, × sworn.

The obligations of the one uttering an oath begin at the moment the oath is uttered.

The root of this word is the Hebrew word for the number “7” (sheva). Seven is a significant number and therefore saying something seven times is to establish and make it firm. This is an idiom: To make an oath is to “seven oneself” or “to produce seven”, to make a declaration confirmed by seven animals (see Genesis 21:28-30). Ancient Arabians made oaths by drawing blood by a cut in their hands and smearing the blood on seven stones. Seven is the number of completion, but more than that, it indicates the completion of a house, dynasty, kingdom.