Definition

to swear, i.e. take (or declare on) oath

Etymology

a prolonged form of a primary, but obsolete , for which another prolonged form is used in certain tenses;

How the KJV renders it

• swear

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.