ὅρκος
hórkos · G3727 · Greek · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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to swear, to make an oath, oath
To affirm the truth of a statement by calling on a divine being to execute sanctions against a person if the statement in question is not true (in the case of a deity taking an oath, his divine being is regarded as validating the statement)
ExamplesMatthew 5:33 “Again, you have heard that the ancients were told, ‘YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FALSE VOWS, BUT SHALL FULFILL YOUR VOWS TO THE LORD.’
Matthew 14:7 so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.
Matthew 14:9 And although he was grieved, the king commanded it to be given because of his oaths and his dinner guests.
How it’s used In 5 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σύyou 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- διαθήκηcovenant 1
- ὀμνύωto swear, to make an oath 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ὀμνύωto swear, to make an oath 1
- ἀποδίδωμιto give back, to pay, to repay 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πέραςend 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- διάthrough 6
- μετάwith, after 4
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 1 word
- שְׁבוּעָה shᵉbûwʻâh · H7621 · oath, curse
- Hebrew שְׁבוּעָה and Greek ὅρκος both denote a formal oath or sworn statement, with semantic overlap across curse and vow contexts; the Hebrew term's gloss explicitly includes both 'oath' and 'curse' senses that map directly to the Greek term's 'sacred restraint' formulation, representing a straightforward translation equivalence across the OT/LXX textual tradition.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To swear, to make an oath, oath33.463
- ὅρκος names the formal, binding pledge of an oath, as Jesus corrects the traditional teaching on oath-keeping: “you have heard that the ancients were told, ‘YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FALSE VOWS, BUT SHALL FULFILL YOUR VOWS TO THE LORD.’” (Matthew 5:33)
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὅρκου, ὁ (from ἔργῳ, εἴργω; equivalent to ἕρκος an enclosure, confinement; hence,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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