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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 [fn]skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went 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 cut a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33 - And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of Yahweh, 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 walked together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at 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 from 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 - “Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your seed 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 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

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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 arose from 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 surely [fn]take care of you, and you shall bring up my bones from here with you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - then an oath before Yahweh shall be made by the two of them [fn]that he has not [fn]laid hands on his neighbor’s property; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not 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 a man may speak thoughtlessly with a sworn oath, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will 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 have the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people by Yahweh making your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - “If a man makes a vow to Yahweh or swears an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate 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 - “However, if she vowed in her husband’s house or bound herself by an 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 cause it to stand, or her husband may annul it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - but because Yahweh loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your fathers, Yahweh brought you out with a strong 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 free 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 will be that anyone who goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be free; but anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall 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 free 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 upon us for 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 come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For [fn]they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:26 - So the people entered the forest, and behold, there was a flow of honey; but no man put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the sworn 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh, and the command which I have commanded you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:16 -

Which He cut with Abraham,

And His oath to Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:15 - All Judah was glad concerning the oath, for they had sworn with their whole heart and had searched for Him with all their desire, and He was found by them. So Yahweh gave them rest on every side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - are [fn]joining with their [fn]relatives, their nobles, and are entering into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s law, which was given by the hand of Moses, God’s servant, and to keep and to do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord and His judgments and His statutes;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:9 -

Which He cut with Abraham,

And His oath to Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24 -

He who [fn]divides the spoil with a thief hates his own soul;

He hears the oath but declares 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 sworn 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 for the unclean; for the man who offers a sacrifice and for the one who does not sacrifice. As the good man is, so is the sinner; as the swearer is, so is the one who [fn]is afraid to swear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - in order to establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day.”’” Then I answered and said, “Amen, O Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - “Indeed all Israel has trespassed against Your law, even turning aside, not listening to Your voice; so the curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the [fn]law of Moses the [fn]servant of God, for 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 come to Gilgal,

Nor cross over to Beersheba;

For Gilgal will certainly go into [fn]exile,

And Bethel will become [fn]evil.

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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]false oaths; for all these are what I hate,’ declares Yahweh.”
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