NONE.filter - rwp horkou:

rwp@Matthew:14:7 @{Promised with an oath} (\meta horkou hmologsen\). Literally, "confessed with an oath." For this verb in the sense of promise, see strkjv@Acts:7:17|. Note middle voice of \aitstai\ (ask for herself). Cf. strkjv@Esther:5:3; strkjv@7:2|.

rwp@Matthew:14:9 @{Grieved} (\luptheis\). Not to hurt, for in verse 5| we read that he wanted (\theln\) to put him to death (\apokteinai\). Herod, however, shrank from so dastardly a deed as this public display of brutality and bloodthirstiness. Men who do wrong always have some flimsy excuses for their sins. A man here orders a judicial murder of the most revolting type "for the sake of his oath" (\dia tous horkous\). "More like profane swearing than deliberate utterance once for all of a solemn oath" (Bruce). He was probably maudlin with wine and befuddled by the presence of the guests.

rwp@Matthew:26:72 @{With an oath} (\meta horkou\). This time Peter added an oath, probably a former habit so common to the Jews at that time, and denied acquaintance with Jesus. He even refers to Jesus as "the man" (\ton anthrpon\), an expression that could convey contempt, "the fellow."