Word

ζυγός

zygós · G2218 · Greek · 6 occurrences

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A word for 2 things

YokeAgriculture and farming61 verses
Balance scalesCommerce26 verses

Meanings

yoke

A bar or frame of wood by which two draft animals are joined at the head or neck in order to work together effectively in pulling a plow, harrow, or wagon

Examples
Matthew 11:29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.
Matthew 11:30 “For My yoke is comfortable, and My burden is light.”
Acts 15:10 “Since this is the case, why are you putting God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?
balance scale

An instrument for weighing objects

Examples
Revelation 6:5 When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come!” I looked, and behold, a black horse, and the one who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.

How it’s used In 4 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

3 occurrences in 2 groups

ἐγώI, we 2
δουλείαslavery 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

αἴρωto take up, to take away, to carry 1
ἐπιτίθημιto lay on, to put on 1
ἔχωto have 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

χρηστόςkind, good 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ὑπόby, under 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.

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In the other Testament 2 words

מֹאזֵן môʼzên · H3976 · balance, scales: Hebrew מֹאזֵן denotes the physical scales/balances instrument itself, while Greek ζυγός encompasses both the literal balance beam and extends metaphorically to servitude and obligation (the figurative 'yoke' sense); the literal balance-instrument overlap represents direct cross-linguistic equivalence in LXX contexts where the physical weighing device is in view.
עֹל ʻôl · H5923 · yoke, oppression, bondage: Hebrew עֹל (ʻôl, H5923) denotes the literal wooden yoke placed on animals and its figurative extension to bondage or servitude, directly equivalent to Greek ζυγός (zygós, G2218) which carries the same literal (yoke/beam of balance) and figurative (servitude/obligation) semantic range.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Balance scale6.214: In Revelation 6:5, when the third seal was opened, John saw a black horse “and the one who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand,” using this word for an instrument used to weigh out goods.
Yoke6.8: In Matthew 11:29, Jesus invites, “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS,” naming this wooden farming implement figuratively.
To be a slave87.80: In 1 Timothy 6:1, Paul writes, “All who are under the yoke as slaves are to regard their own masters as worthy of all honor,” using this word for the condition of being subject to another as a slave.

Word family 7 words

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

ζυγόςzygós · G2218ζεῦγος zeûgos · G2201 · pair, team · 2×συζεύγνυμι 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×

Also from the root ζυγός

ἑτεροζυγέω heterozygéō · G2086 · to be mismatched, to be wrongly matched · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ζυγοῦ, ὁ, for which in Greek writings before Polybius τό ζυγόν was more common (from…

ζυγοῦ, ὁ, for which in Greek writings before Polybius τό ζυγόν was more common (from ζεύγνυμι);
1. a yoke;
a. properly, such as is put on draught-cattle.
b. metaphorically, used of any burden or bondage: as that of slavery, 1 Tim 6:1 (Lev 26:13), δουλείας, Gal 5:1 (Sophocles Aj. 944; δουλοσυνης, Demosthenes 322, 12); of troublesome laws imposed on one, especially of the Mosaic law, Acts 15:10; Gal 5:1; hence, the name is so transferred to the commands of Christ as to contrast them with the commands of the Pharisees which were a veritable 'yoke'; yet even Christ's commands must be submitted to, though easier to be kept: Mt 11:29f (less aptly in Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 16, 17 [ET] Christians are called οἱ ὑπό τόν ζυγόν τῆς χάριτος ἐλθόντες (cf. Harnack at the passage)).
2. a balance, pair of scales: Rev 6:5 (as in Isa 40:12; Lev 19:36; Plato, rep. 8, 550 e.; Aelian v. h. 10, 6; others).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Instruments Used in Agriculture and Husbandry5 occurrences Instruments for Measuring1 occurrence

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