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Lexicon :: Strong's H5923 - ʿōl

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עֹל
Transliteration
ʿōl
Pronunciation
ole
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1628a

Strong’s Definitions

עֹל ʻôl, ole; or עוֹל ʻôwl; from H5953; a yoke (as imposed on the neck), literally or figuratively:—yoke.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 40x

The KJV translates Strong's H5923 in the following manner: yoke (40x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 40x
The KJV translates Strong's H5923 in the following manner: yoke (40x).

  1. yoke

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֹל ʻôl, ole; or עוֹל ʻôwl; from H5953; a yoke (as imposed on the neck), literally or figuratively:—yoke.
STRONGS H5923: Abbreviations
† עֹל 39 noun masculine 1 Kings 12:4 yoke; — ע׳ absolute Hosea 11:4 +; construct Isaiah 9:3 +; suffix עֻלֵךְ Jeremiah 2:20; Isaiah 47:6, עֻלּוֺ Genesis 27:40 +, עֻלְּכֶם 1 Kings 12:11, etc.; — yoke, for cattle, עָלָה עֲלֵיהֶם ע׳ 1 Samuel 6:7, compare Numbers 19:2 (P), מָֽשְׁכָה בְּע׳ Deuteronomy 21:3; usually figurative of servitude 1 Kings 12:4, 10, 11 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 12:14 (twice in verse) = 2 Chronicles 10:4, 10, 11 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 10:14; עַל נָתַן ע׳ 1 Kings 12:4, 9 2 Chronicles 10:4, 9; וְנָתַן ע׳ בַּרְזֶל עַלצַֿוָּארֶ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 28:48, so Jeremiah 28:14; עַלזָֿקִן הִכְבַּדְתְּ ע׳ Isaiah 47:6; also נָתַן (הֵבִיא) אֶתצַֿוָּארוֺ בְּעֹל Jeremiah 27:8, 11, 12; שָׁבַר ע׳ break the yoke Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 5:5; Jeremiah 28:2, 4, 11; Jeremiah 30:8 (+ מֵעַל צ׳), so מֹטֹת ע׳ Leviticus 26:13 (H), Ezekiel 34:27 (see מוֺטָה); מָּרַק ע׳ Genesis 27:40 (J; + מֵעַל צ׳); הֵחֵת ע׳ Isaiah 9:3; compare הֵרִים ע׳ Hosea 11:4; also מֵעַל צ׳ יָסוּר ע׳ Isaiah 10:27, and Isaiah 14:25; figurative of transgressions Lamentations 1:14, strike out ע׳ Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Löhr Bu, but read עֹל Lamentations 1:14b (see id.); of hardship, נָשָׂא ע׳ Lamentations 3:27.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

27:40; 27:40

Leviticus

26:13

Numbers

19:2

Deuteronomy

21:3; 28:48

1 Samuel

6:7

1 Kings

12:4; 12:4; 12:4; 12:9; 12:10; 12:11; 12:11; 12:14

2 Chronicles

10:4; 10:4; 10:9; 10:10; 10:11; 10:14

Isaiah

9:3; 9:3; 10:27; 14:25; 47:6; 47:6

Jeremiah

2:20; 2:20; 5:5; 27:8; 27:11; 27:12; 28:2; 28:4; 28:11; 28:14; 30:8

Lamentations

1:14; 1:14; 3:27

Ezekiel

34:27

Hosea

11:4; 11:4

H5923

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5923 matches the Hebrew עֹל (ʿōl),
which occurs 40 times in 34 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:40 - By your sword you shall live,
and you shall serve your brother;
but when you grow restless
you shall break his yoke from your neck.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:13 - I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:2 - “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer that has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:7 - Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:4 - “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:9 - And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:10 - And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,’ thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:11 - And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:14 - he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:4 - “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:9 - And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:10 - And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us’; thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:11 - And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:14 - King Rehoboam spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:4 - For the yoke of his burden,
and the staff for his shoulder,
the rod of his oppressor,
you have broken as on the day of Midian.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:27 - And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:25 - that I will break the Assyrian in my land,
and on my mountains trample him underfoot;
and his yoke shall depart from them,
and his burden from their shoulder.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:6 - I was angry with my people;
I profaned my heritage;
I gave them into your hand;
you showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - “For long ago I broke your yoke
and burst your bonds;
but you said, ‘I will not serve.’
Yes, on every high hill
and under every green tree
you bowed down like a whore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:5 - I will go to the great
and will speak to them,
for they know the way of the LORD,
the justice of their God.”
But they all alike had broken the yoke;
they had burst the bonds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - “‘“But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:11 - But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the LORD.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:12 - To Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people and live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:2 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:4 - I will also bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, declares the LORD, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:11 - And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two years.” But Jeremiah the prophet went his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:14 - For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:8 - “And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and I will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:14 - “My transgressions were bound[fn] into a yoke;
by his hand they were fastened together;
they were set upon my neck;
he caused my strength to fail;
the Lord gave me into the hands
of those whom I cannot withstand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:27 - It is good for a man that he bear
the yoke in his youth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:27 - And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:4 - I led them with cords of kindness,[fn]
with the bands of love,
and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,
and I bent down to them and fed them.
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