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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 - Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - So they made a treaty at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, 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. There he worshiped the LORD, the eternal God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, you will be free from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3 - Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23 - From there Isaac went up to Beer Sheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1 - So Israel began his journey, taking with him all that he had. When he came to Beer Sheba he 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 started out from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19 - Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear, "God will surely attend to you, and you will carry my bones up from this place with you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - then there will be an oath to the LORD between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor's goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - or when a person swears an oath, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips, whether to do evil or to do good, with regard to anything which the individual might speak thoughtlessly in an oath, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty with regard to one of these oaths -

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - Then the priest will put the woman under the oath of the curse and will say to the her, "The LORD make you an attested curse among your people, if the LORD makes 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 the LORD or takes an oath of binding obligation on himself, he must not break his word, but must do whatever he has promised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:10 - If she made the vow in her husband's house or put herself under obligation with an oath,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:13 - "Any vow or sworn obligation that would bring affliction to her, her husband can confirm or nullify.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - Rather it is because of his love for you and his faithfulness to the promise he solemnly vowed to your ancestors that the LORD brought you out with great power, redeeming you from the place of slavery, from the power 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 are not bound by this oath you made us swear unless the following conditions are met:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19 - Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death - we are innocent in that case! But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:20 - If you should report what we've been up to, we are not bound by this oath you made us swear."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:20 - We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:5 - The Israelites asked, "Who from all the Israelite tribes has not assembled before the LORD?" They had made a solemn oath that whoever did not assemble before the LORD at Mizpah must certainly be executed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:26 - When the army entered the forest, they saw the honey flowing, but no one ate any of it, for the army was afraid of the oath.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:7 - The king had mercy on Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, in light of the LORD's oath that had been taken between David and Jonathan son of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:43 - Why then have you broken the oath you made before the LORD and disobeyed the order I gave you?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:16 - the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:15 - All Judah was happy about the oath, because they made the vow with their whole heart. They willingly sought the LORD and he responded to them. He made them secure on every side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders and enter into a curse and an oath to adhere to the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, along with his ordinances and his statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:9 - the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24 - Whoever shares with a thief is his own enemy; he hears the oath to testify, but does not talk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:2 - Obey the king's command, because you took an oath before God to be loyal to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2 - Everyone shares the same fate - the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the ceremonially clean and unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. What happens to the good person, also happens to the sinner; what happens to those who make vows, also happens to those who are afraid to make vows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - Then I will keep the promise I swore on oath to your ancestors to give them a land flowing with milk and honey." That is the very land that you still live in today.'" And I responded, "Amen! Let it be so, LORD!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - "All Israel has broken your law and turned away by not obeying you. Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - Do not seek Bethel! Do not visit Gilgal! Do not journey down to Beer Sheba! For the people of Gilgal will certainly be carried into exile; and Bethel will become a place where disaster abounds."

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:17 - Do not plan evil in your hearts against one another. Do not favor a false oath - these are all things that I hate,' says the LORD."
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