Yoke
מוֹטָהStrong’s H4133motah (mo-tah)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Motah is the Hebrew word usually translated “yoke-bar”, “yoke-bars of” and “bars of”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.”
Meaning
- Pole, bar of yokepole · bar of yoke
How it's translated
- yoke-bar 3
- yoke-bars of 3
- bars of 2
- the yoke-bar 2
- with poles 1
- and yoke-bars 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 4
- Isaiah 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Leviticus 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 15:15And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.
- Isaiah 58:6Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
- Isaiah 58:9Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
- Jeremiah 27:2Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
- Jeremiah 28:10Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and brake it.
- Jeremiah 28:12Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹטָה motah · yoke
1) pole, bar of yoke 1a) pole 1b) bar of yoke 1b1) of oppression (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “yoke” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
YOKE, noun
[G., Latin, Gr.]
- A piece of timber, hollowed or made curving near each end, and fitted with bows for receiving the necks of oxen; by which means two are connected for drawing.
- A mark of servitude; slavery; bondage.
- A chain; a link; a bond of connection; as the yoke of marriage.
- A couple; a pair; as a yoke of oxen.
All definitions and other forms of “yoke”
- Service.“My yoke is easy” Matthew 11:30
YOKE, verb transitive
- To put a yoke on; to join in a yoke; as, to yoke oxen, or a pair of oxen.
- To couple; to join with another.
- To enslave; to bring into bondage.
- To restrain; to confine.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.