Yoke
עֹלStrong’s H5923ol
Appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ol is the Hebrew word usually translated “yoke your”, “yoke” and “yoke of”. It appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament.
“And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.”
Meaning
- Yoke
How it's translated
- yoke your 8
- a yoke 7
- yoke of 5
- yoke our 4
- in yoke of 3
- yoke his 2
- a yoke of 2
- and some of yoke his 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 10
- 1 Kings 5
- 2 Chronicles 5
- Isaiah 4
- Deuteronomy 2
- Lamentations 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 26:13I 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.
- Numbers 19:2This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
- Deuteronomy 21:3And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;
- Deuteronomy 28:48Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
- 1 Samuel 6:7Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
- 1 Kings 12:4Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
Hebrew dictionary
עֹל ol · yoke
yoke
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.