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Lexicon :: Strong's G3727 - horkos

Aa
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 - 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 gave her the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33 - And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 - And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: 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 BoxExo 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 BoxExo 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - the oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, whether he hath not put his hand unto his neighbor’s goods; and the owner thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - When a man voweth a vow unto Jehovah, or sweareth 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 BoxNum 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 BoxNum 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 BoxDeu 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - but because Jehovah loveth you, and because he would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:17 - And the men said unto her, We will be guiltless of this thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 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 shall 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 BoxJos 2:20

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:20

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 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 in the assembly unto Jehovah? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:26 - And when the people were come unto the forest, 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 Box2Sa 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:7 - But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Jehovah’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:43 - Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:16 -
The covenant which he made with Abraham,
And his oath unto Isaac,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 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 Jehovah gave them rest round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 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 Jehovah our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:9 -
The covenant which he made with Abraham,
And his oath unto Isaac,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24 -
Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul;
He heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:2 - I counsel thee, Keep the king’s command, and that in regard of the oath of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 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 BoxJer 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - that I may establish the oath which I sware unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, O Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside, that they should not obey thy voice: therefore hath the curse been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:17

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