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Lexicon :: Strong's G3727 - horkos

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ὅρκος
Transliteration
horkos (Key)
Pronunciation
hor'-kos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From herkos (a fence, perhaps akin to ὅριον (G3725))
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:457,729

Strong’s Definitions

ὅρκος hórkos, hor'-kos; from ἕρκος hérkos (a fence; perhaps akin to G3725); a limit, i.e. (sacred) restraint (specially, an oath):—oath.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G3727 in the following manner: oath (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G3727 in the following manner: oath (10x).

  1. that which has been pledged or promised with an oath

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὅρκος hórkos, hor'-kos; from ἕρκος hérkos (a fence; perhaps akin to G3725); a limit, i.e. (sacred) restraint (specially, an oath):—oath.
STRONGS G3727:
ὅρκος, ὅρκου, ὁ (from ἔργῳ, εἴργω; equivalent to ἕρκος an enclosure, confinement; hence, Latinorcus) (from Homer down), the Sept. for שֲׁבוּעָה, an oath: Matthew 14:7, 9; Matthew 26:72; Mark 6:26; Luke 1:73 (Winers Grammar, 628 (583); Buttmann, § 144, 13); Acts 2:30 (Winer's Grammar, 226 (212); 603 (561)); Hebrews 6:16; James 5:12; by metonymy, that which has been pledged or promised with an oath; plural vows, Matthew 5:33 ((cf. Wünsche ad loc.)).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
5:33; 14:7; 14:9; 26:72
Mark
6:26
Luke
1:73
Acts
2:30
Hebrews
6:16
James
5:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3727 matches the Greek ὅρκος (horkos),
which occurs 40 times in 38 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a [fn]skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - So they made a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33 - Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - So Abraham returned to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived in Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - “But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free of this oath of mine; only do not take my son back there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3 - “Live for a time in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your [fn]descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23 -

And he went up from there to Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - So he called it [fn]Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 -

Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1 -

So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

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Then Jacob left Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:19

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - an oath before the LORD shall be [fn]taken by the two of them [fn]that he has not [fn]laid a hand on his neighbor’s property; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not be compelled to make restitution.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - ‘Or if a person swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, in whatever matter people speak thoughtlessly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty of one of these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - (then the priest shall have the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), “may the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people by the LORD’S making your thigh [fn]shriveled and your [fn]belly swollen;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - “If a man makes a vow to the LORD, or takes an oath to [fn]put himself under a binding obligation, he shall not break his word; he shall act in accordance with everything that comes out of his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:10 - “However, if a married woman vowed in her husband’s house, or put herself under a binding obligation with an oath,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:13 -

“Every vow and every binding oath to humble herself, her husband may confirm it or her husband may annul it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of [fn]slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:17 - And the men said to her, “We shall be exempt from this oath [fn]to you which you have made us swear,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19 - “And it shall come about that anyone who goes out of the doors of your house outside will have [fn]his blood on his own head, and we will be innocent; but anyone who is with you in the house, his blood will be on our head if a hand is laid on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:20 - “But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be exempt from the oath which you have made us swear.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:20 - “This we will do to them, even let them live, so that wrath will not be on us because of the oath which we swore to them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:5 -

Then the sons of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who did not go up to the LORD in the assembly?” For [fn]they had taken a solemn oath concerning anyone who did not go up to the LORD at Mizpah, saying, “He shall certainly be put to death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:26 - When the people entered the forest, behold, there was honey dripping; but no man put his hand to his mouth, because the people feared the oath.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:7

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But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath of the LORD which was between them, between David and Saul’s son Jonathan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:43 - “Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD, and the command which I [fn]imposed on you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:16 -

The covenant which He made with Abraham,

And His oath to Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:15 - All Judah rejoiced concerning the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought Him [fn]earnestly, and He let them find Him. So the LORD gave them rest on every side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - are joining with their kinsmen, their nobles, and are [fn]taking on themselves a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law, which was given through Moses, God’s servant, and to keep and to [fn]comply with all the commandments of [fn]GOD our Lord, and His ordinances and statutes;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:9 -

The covenant which He made with Abraham,

And His oath to Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24 -

One who is a partner with a thief hates his own life;

He hears the oath but tells nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:2 -

I say, “Keep the [fn]command of the king because of the oath [fn]before God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2 -

It is the same for all. There is one fate for the righteous and for the wicked; for the good, for the clean and the unclean; for the person who offers a sacrifice and for the one who does not sacrifice. As the good person is, so is the sinner; the one who swears an oath is just as the one who [fn]is afraid to swear an oath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - in order to confirm the oath which I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day.”’” Then I replied, “Amen, LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - “Indeed, all Israel has violated Your Law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the curse has gushed forth on us, along with the oath which is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 -

“But do not [fn]resort to Bethel

And do not come to Gilgal,

Nor cross over to Beersheba;

For Gilgal will certainly go into captivity

And Bethel will [fn]come to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:17 - ‘Also let none of you devise evil in your heart against another, and do not love [fn]perjury; for all these things are what I hate,’ declares the LORD.”
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