Original: ὀμνύω

Transliteration: omnýō

Phonetic: om-noo'-o

Short Definition: Swear

- Original: ὀμνύω

- Transliteration: Omnuo

- Phonetic: om-noo'-o

- Definition:

1. to swear

2. to affirm, promise, threaten, with an oath

3. in swearing to call a person or thing as witness, to invoke, swear by

- Origin: a prolonged form of a primary but obsolete omo, for which another prolonged form (omoo om-o'-o) is used in certain tenses

- TDNT entry: 07:56,7

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: A prolonged form of a primary but obsolete word ὄμω omō for which another prolonged form (ὀμόω omoō om-o'-o) is used in certain tenses. To swear that is take (or declare on) oath: - swear.