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Yoke
Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects
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Comments: Yoke of Oxen
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
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Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/apo/y/yoke.html. 2024.
