1 Kings 22:16
King James Version
9 Jun 2026
“And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the Lord?”
שָׁבַע
To swear, to take an oath. Shaba. God swore by Himself because there is none greater. His promises are backed by His own eternal nature.
יְהֹוָה
Yahweh
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יְהֹוָה
LORD. Yahweh. The covenant name of God. I AM WHO I AM. The self-existent eternal One who was is and always will be.
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דָבַר
you must speak
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דָבַר
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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עַד
until
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עַד
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
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רַק
only
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רַק
properly, leanness, i.e. (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although
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פַּעַם
times
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פַּעַם
a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow)
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