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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 rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. Then Abim'elech and Phicol the commander of his army rose 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 in Beer-sheba, and called there 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 arose and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

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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 from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3 - Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23 - From there he went up to Beer-sheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - Jacob left Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1 - So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 - Then Jacob set out from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, 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 Joseph had solemnly sworn the people of Israel, saying, "God will visit you; then you must carry my bones with you from here."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - an oath by the LORD shall be between them both to see whether he has not put his hand to his neighbor's property; and the owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - Or if any one utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that men swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it he shall in any of these be guilty.

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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 an execration 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 Num 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:10 - And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound herself by a pledge with an oath,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:13 - Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - but it is because the LORD loves you, and is keeping the oath which he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:17 - The men said to her, "We will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours which you have made us swear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19 - If any one goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be guiltless; but if a hand is laid upon any one who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.

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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 guiltless with respect to your 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, and let them live, lest wrath be upon 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 - And the people of Israel said, "Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?" For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, "He shall be put to death."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:26 - And when the people entered the forest, behold, the honey was dropping, but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:7 - But the king spared Mephib'osheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the oath of the LORD which was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:43 - Why then have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the commandment with which I charged you?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:16 - the covenant which he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:15 - And all Judah rejoiced over the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the LORD gave them rest round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - join with their brethren, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's law which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his ordinances and his statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:9 - the covenant which he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24 - The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse, but discloses nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:2 - Keep the king's command, and because of your sacred oath be not dismayed;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2 - since one fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good man, so is the sinner; and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - that I may perform the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day." Then I answered, "So be it, LORD."

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - All Israel has transgressed thy law and turned aside, refusing to obey thy voice. And the curse and oath which are written in the law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nought."

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:17 - do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, says the LORD."
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