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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 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33 - And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, 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 unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3 - Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23 - And he went up from thence to Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:1

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 - And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, 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 straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth 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 her soul by a bond with an oath;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:13 - Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, 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 unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19 - And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:20 - And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:20 - This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:5 - And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:26 - And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; 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 Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that 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 hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:16 - Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into 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 judgments and his statutes;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:9 - Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24 - Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:2 - I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth 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 have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that 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 seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:17 - And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
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