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Lexicon :: Strong's G3726 - horkizō

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ὁρκίζω
Transliteration
horkizō (Key)
Pronunciation
hor-kid'-zo
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:462,729

Strong’s Definitions

†ὁρκίζω horkízō, hor-kid'-zo; from G3727; to put on oath, i.e. make swear; by analogy, to solemnly enjoin:—adjure, charge.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G3726 in the following manner: adjure (2x), charge (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G3726 in the following manner: adjure (2x), charge (1x).

  1. to force to take an oath, to administer an oath to

  2. to adjure (solemnly implore)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†ὁρκίζω horkízō, hor-kid'-zo; from G3727; to put on oath, i.e. make swear; by analogy, to solemnly enjoin:—adjure, charge.
STRONGS G3726:
ὁρκίζω; (ὅρκος);
1. to force to take an oath, to administer an oath to: Xenophon, conviv. 4, 10; Demosthenes, Polybius; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 361.
2. to adjure (solemnly implore), with two accusative of person, viz. of the one who is adjured and of the one by whom he is adjured (cf. Matthiae, § 413, 10; (Buttmann, 147 (128))): 1 Thessalonians 5:27 R G (see ἐνορκίζω); Mark 5:7; Acts 19:13. (the Sept. for הִשְׁבִּיעַ, τινα followed by κατά with the genitive, 1 Kings 2:42 (1 Kings 3:42); 2 Chronicles 36:13; ἐν, Nehemiah 13:25.) (Compare: ἐνορκίζω, ἐξορκίζω.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Kings
2:42
2 Chronicles
36:13
Nehemiah
13:25
Mark
5:7
Acts
19:13
1 Thessalonians
5:27

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3726 matches the Greek ὁρκίζω (horkizō),
which occurs 26 times in 25 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37 - My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - ‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.” Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:6 - And Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:16 - So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25 - Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19 - Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph[fn] had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - then’ (let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman) ‘the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your body swell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:26 - Joshua laid an oath on them at that time, saying, “Cursed before the LORD be the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho.
“At the cost of his firstborn shall he
lay its foundation,
and at the cost of his youngest son
shall he set up its gates.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:27 - But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath, so he put out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:28 - Then one of the people said, “Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats food this day.’” And the people were faint.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:37 - For on the day you go out and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die. Your blood shall be on your own head.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:42 - the king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the LORD and solemnly warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go out and go to any place whatever, you shall die’? And you said to me, ‘What you say is good; I will obey.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:16 - But the king said to him, “How many times shall I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 11:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:4 - But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the LORD. And he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the LORD, and he showed them the king’s son.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:15 - But the king said to him, “How many times shall I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:13 - He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:5 - Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:12 - Then they said, “We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say.” And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:25 - And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:7 - I adjure you,[fn] O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:5 - I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:8 - I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
if you find my beloved,
that you tell him
I am sick with love.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:9 - Others
What is your beloved more than another beloved,
O most beautiful among women?
What is your beloved more than another beloved,
that you thus adjure us?

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:4 - I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.
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