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Lexicon :: Strong's G2218 - zygos

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ζυγός
Transliteration
zygos (Key)
Pronunciation
dzoo-gos'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the root of zeugnumi (to join, especially by a "yoke")
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:896,301

Strong’s Definitions

ζυγός zygós, dzoo-gos'; from the root of ζεύγνυμι zeúgnymi (to join, especially by a "yoke"); a coupling, i.e. (figuratively) servitude (a law or obligation); also (literally) the beam of the balance (as connecting the scales):—pair of balances, yoke.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G2218 in the following manner: yoke (5x), pair of balances (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G2218 in the following manner: yoke (5x), pair of balances (1x).

  1. a yoke

    1. a yoke that is put on draught cattle

    2. metaph., used of any burden or bondage

      1. as that of slavery

      2. of troublesome laws imposed on one, esp. of the Mosaic law, hence the name is so transferred to the commands of Christ as to contrast them with the commands of the Pharisees which were a veritable 'yoke'; yet even Christ's commands must be submitted to, though easier to be kept

  2. a balance, pair of scales

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ζυγός zygós, dzoo-gos'; from the root of ζεύγνυμι zeúgnymi (to join, especially by a "yoke"); a coupling, i.e. (figuratively) servitude (a law or obligation); also (literally) the beam of the balance (as connecting the scales):—pair of balances, yoke.
STRONGS G2218:
ζυγός, -οῦ, ὁ, for which in Greek writings before Polybius τὸ ζυγόν was more common, (from ζεύγνυμι);
1. a yoke;
a. properly, such as is put on draught-cattle.
b. metaphorically, used of any burden or bondage: as that of slavery, 1 Timothy 6:1 (Leviticus 26:13), δουλείας, Galatians 5:1 (Sophocles Aj. 944; δουλοσύνης, Demosthenes 322, 12); of troublesome laws imposed on one, especially of the Mosaic law, Acts 15:10; Galatians 5:1; hence, the name is so transferred to the commands of Christ as to contrast them with the commands of the Pharisees which were a veritable 'yoke'; yet even Christ's commands must be submitted to, though easier to be kept: Matthew 11:29f (less aptly in Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 16, 17 Christians are called οἱ ὑπὸ τὸν ζυγὸν τῆς χάριτος ἐλθόντες [cf. Harnack at the passage]).
2. a balance, pair of scales: Revelation 6:5 (as in Isaiah 40:12; Leviticus 19:36; Plato, rep. 8, 550 e.; Aelian v. h. 10, 6; others).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Leviticus
19:36; 26:13
Isaiah
40:12
Matthew
11:29
Acts
15:10
1 Corinthians
16; 16:17
Galatians
5:1; 5:1
1 Timothy
6:1
Revelation
6:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2218 matches the Greek ζυγός (zygos),
which occurs 53 times in 49 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:40 - You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck."

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:35 - You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:36 - You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

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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 from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:2 - "This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded: 'Instruct the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without blemish, which has no defect and has never carried a yoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked - that has never pulled with the yoke -

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:4 - "Your father made us work too hard! Now if you lighten the demands he made and don't make us work as hard, we will serve you."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:9 - He asked them, "How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, 'Lessen the demands your father placed on us'?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:10 - The young advisers with whom Rehoboam had grown up said to him, "Say this to these people who have said to you, 'Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden' - say this to them: 'I am a lot harsher than my father!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:11 - My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:14 - and followed the advice of the younger ones. He said, "My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh."

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:2 - "Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:6 - let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:10 - Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:3 - They say, "Let's tear off the shackles they've put on us! Let's free ourselves from their ropes!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 62:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:9 - Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:1 - The LORD abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:11 - Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:23 - The LORD abhors differing weights, and dishonest scales are wicked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18 - Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:4 - For their oppressive yoke and the club that strikes their shoulders, the cudgel the oppressor uses on them, you have shattered, as in the day of Midian's defeat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:27 - At that time the LORD will remove their burden from your shoulders, and their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be taken off because your neck will be too large.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:5 - The LORD has broken the club of the wicked, the scepter of rulers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:25 - I will break Assyria in my land, I will trample them underfoot on my hills. Their yoke will be removed from my people, the burden will be lifted from their shoulders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29 - Don't be so happy, all you Philistines, just because the club that beat you has been broken! For a viper will grow out of the serpent's root, and its fruit will be a darting adder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12 - Who has measured out the waters in the hollow of his hand, or carefully measured the sky, or carefully weighed the soil of the earth, or weighed the mountains in a balance, or the hills on scales?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:15 - Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales. He lifts the coastlands as if they were dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:6 - Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:6 - I was angry at my people; I defiled my special possession and handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you even placed a very heavy burden on old people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - "Indeed, long ago you threw off my authority and refused to be subject to me. You said, 'I will not serve you.' Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill and under every green tree, like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:5 - I will go to the leaders and speak with them. Surely they know what the LORD demands. Surely they know what their God requires of them." Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - But suppose a nation or a kingdom will not be subject to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Suppose it will not submit to the yoke of servitude to him. I, the LORD, affirm that I will punish that nation. I will use the king of Babylon to punish it with war, starvation, and disease until I have destroyed it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:11 - Things will go better for the nation that submits to the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon and is subject to him. I will leave that nation in its native land. Its people can continue to farm it and live in it. I, the LORD, affirm it!"'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:2 - "The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, 'I will break the yoke of servitude to 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 Jehoiakim's son King Jeconiah of Judah and all the exiles who were taken to Babylon.' Indeed, the LORD affirms, 'I will break the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:11 - Then he spoke up in the presence of all the people. "The LORD says, 'In the same way I will break the yoke of servitude of all the nations to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon before two years are over.'" After he heard this, the prophet Jeremiah departed and went on his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:14 - For the LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, "I have put an irresistible yoke of servitude on all these nations so they will serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. And they will indeed serve him. I have even given him control over the wild animals."'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:8 - When the time for them to be rescued comes," says the LORD who rules over all, "I will rescue you from foreign subjugation. I will deliver you from captivity. Foreigners will then no longer subjugate them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:10 - I signed the deed of purchase, sealed it, and had some men serve as witnesses to the purchase. I weighed out the silver for him on a scale.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:27 - It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young. י (Yod)

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:1 - "As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber's razor. Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:27 - The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:10 - You must use just balances, a just dry measure (an ephah), and a just liquid measure (a bath).

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:27 - As for teqel - you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:25 - By his treachery he will succeed through deceit. He will have an arrogant attitude, and he will destroy many who are unaware of his schemes. He will rise up against the Prince of princes, yet he will be broken apart - but not by human agency.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:7 - The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:5 - You say, "When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We're eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:11 - I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:9 - Know for sure that I will then enable the nations to give me acceptable praise. All of them will invoke the LORD's name when they pray, and will worship him in unison.
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