Bible Dictionaries
Yoke

From Easton: (1.) Fitted on the neck of oxen for the purpose of binding to them the traces by which they might draw the plough, etc. (Numbers 19:2; Deuteronomy 21:3). It was a curved piece of wood called _'ol_.

(2.) In Jeremiah 27:2; Jeremiah 28:10, Jeremiah 28:12 the word in the Authorized Version rendered "yoke" is _motah_, which properly means a "staff," or as in the Revised Version, "bar."

These words in the Hebrew are both used figuratively of severe bondage, or affliction, or subjection (Leviticus 26:13; 1 Kings 12:4; Isaiah 47:6; Lamentations 1:14; Lamentations 3:27). In the New Testament the word "yoke" is also used to denote servitude (Matthew 11:29, Matthew 11:30; Acts 15:10; Galatians 5:1).

(3.) In 1 Samuel 11:7, 1 Kings 19:21, Job 1:3 the word thus translated is _tzemed_, which signifies a pair, two oxen yoked or coupled together, and hence in 1 Samuel 14:14 it represents as much land as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, like the Latin _jugum_. In Isaiah 5:10 this word in the plural is translated "acres."

Verses:

• Genesis 27:40
• Exodus 6:6
• Exodus 6:7
• Leviticus 26:13
• Numbers 19:2
• Deuteronomy 21:3
• Deuteronomy 22:10
• Deuteronomy 28:48
• 1 Samuel 6:7
• 1 Samuel 11:7
• 2 Samuel 24:22
• 1 Kings 12:4
• 1 Kings 12:9
• 1 Kings 12:10
• 1 Kings 12:11
• 1 Kings 12:14
• 1 Kings 19:19
• 1 Kings 19:21
• 2 Chronicles 10:4
• 2 Chronicles 10:9
• 2 Chronicles 10:10
• 2 Chronicles 10:11
• 2 Chronicles 10:14
• Job 1:3
• Job 42:12
• Psalms 106:28
• Isaiah 9:4
• Isaiah 10:27
• Isaiah 14:25
• Isaiah 47:6
• Isaiah 58:6
• Isaiah 58:9
• Jeremiah 2:20
• Jeremiah 5:5
• Jeremiah 27:2
• Jeremiah 27:8
• Jeremiah 27:11
• Jeremiah 27:12
• Jeremiah 28:2
• Jeremiah 28:4
• Jeremiah 28:10
• Jeremiah 28:11
• Jeremiah 28:12
• Jeremiah 28:13
• Jeremiah 28:14
• Jeremiah 30:8
• Jeremiah 51:23
• Lamentations 1:14
• Lamentations 3:27
• Ezekiel 30:18
• Ezekiel 34:27
• Hosea 10:11
• Hosea 11:4
• Nahum 1:13
• Matthew 11:29
• Matthew 11:30
• Luke 14:19
• Acts 15:10
• 2 Corinthians 6:14
• Galatians 5:1
• Philippians 4:3
• 1 Timothy 6:1