There are a number of minced oaths in the Bible. For example, use of the names or titles of God would be inappropriate in the "Song of Songs" because it is a secular text. Thus in verse 2.7, the Shulamite says, "I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, "by the gazelles or the wild does"." The Hebrew words "ṣᵉba’ot" 'gazelles' and "’aylot haśśadeh" 'wild does' are circumlocutions for titles of God, the first for either "(’elohey) ṣᵉba’ot" '(God of) Hosts' or "(YHWH) ṣᵉba’ot" '(Jehovah is) Armies' and the second for "’el šadday" 'El Shaddai'.