Word

ζεῦγος

zeûgos · G2201 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

pair, team

A collective of two

Examples
Luke 2:24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what has been stated in the Law of the Lord: “A PAIR OF TURTLEDOVES OR TWO YOUNG DOVES.”
Luke 14:19 “And another one said, ‘I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me excused.’

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

βοῦςbull 1
τρυγώνdove 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

πέντεfive 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ἔπωto say 1
ἀγοράζωto buy 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

In the other Testament 1 word

צֶמֶד tsemed · H6776 · pair, yoke, side by side: Hebrew צֶמֶד (tsemed, H6776) and Greek ζεῦγος (zeûgos, G2201) both denote a pair of animals yoked together for work, typically oxen or donkeys, with both terms used for the unit of measurement (a team) rather than the individual animals.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Pair, team60.79: In Luke 2:24, at the presentation of Jesus, Mary and Joseph offer a sacrifice “according to what has been stated in the Law of the Lord: ‘A PAIR OF TURTLEDOVES OR TWO YOUNG DOVES,’” naming this matched pair.

Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ζυγός zygós · G2218 · yoke, balance scale · 6×ζεῦγοςzeûgos · G2201συζεύγνυμι syzeúgnymi · G4801 · to cause to be married, to join in marriage · 2×ὑποζύγιον hypozýgion · G5268 · pack animal, beast of burden, riding animal · 2×ζευκτηρία zeuktēría · G2202 · bands · 1×σύζυγος sýzygos · G4805 · fellow worker · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ζευγεος (ζεύγους), τό (ζεύγνυμι to join, yoke), 1. two draught-cattle (horses or oxen or…

ζευγεος (ζεύγους), τό (ζεύγνυμι to join, yoke),
1. two draught-cattle (horses or oxen or mules) yoked together, a pair or yoke of beasts: Lk 14:19 (צֶמֶד, 1 Kgs 19:19, etc.; often in Greek Writ; from Homer, Iliad 18, 543 down).
2. universally, a pair: Lk 2:24 (Herodotus 3, 130; Aeschylus Ag. 44; Xenophon, oec. 7, 18, and often in Greek writings).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Pair, Group [Numbered Collectives]2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0