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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 BoxGen 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33 - Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3 - Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23 - From there he went up to Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - He called it Shibah,[fn] and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1 - So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 - Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel’s sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19 - Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites swear an oath. He had said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up with you from this place.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - the issue between them will be settled by the taking of an oath before the LORD that the neighbor did not lay hands on the other person’s property. The owner is to accept this, and no restitution is required.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - or if anyone thoughtlessly takes an oath to do anything, whether good or evil (in any matter one might carelessly swear about) even though they are unaware of it, but then they learn of it and realize their guilt—

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the LORD cause you to become a curse[fn] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - When a man makes a vow to the LORD or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:10 - “If a woman living with her husband makes a vow or obligates herself by a pledge under oath

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:13 - Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow she makes or any sworn pledge to deny herself.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:17 - Now the men had said to her, “This oath you made us swear will not be binding on us

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19 - If any of them go outside your house into the street, their blood will be on their own heads; we will not be responsible. As for those who are in the house with you, their blood will be on our head if a hand is laid on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:20 - But if you tell what we are doing, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:20 - This is what we will do to them: We will let them live, so that God’s wrath will not fall on us for breaking the oath we swore to them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:5 - Then the Israelites asked, “Who from all the tribes of Israel has failed to assemble before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to assemble before the LORD at Mizpah was to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:26 - When they went into the woods, they saw the honey oozing out; yet no one put his hand to his mouth, because they feared the oath.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:7 - The king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and Jonathan son of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:43 - Why then did you not keep your oath to the LORD and obey the command I gave you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:16 - the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:15 - All Judah rejoiced about the oath because they had sworn it wholeheartedly. They sought God eagerly, and he was found by them. So the LORD gave them rest on every side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - all these now join their fellow Israelites the nobles, and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the LORD our Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:9 - the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24 - The accomplices of thieves are their own enemies; they are put under oath and dare not testify.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:2 - Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2 - All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,[fn] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’—the land you possess today.” I answered, “Amen, LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. “Therefore the curses and sworn judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:17 - do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the LORD.
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