noun · feminine
horkōmosias
Strong’sG3728
the taking of an oath, an oath
stem horkōmosi-4 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ὁρκωμοσία, -ας, ἡ
(< ὅρκος, ὄμνυμι; by metapl. for τὰ ὁρκωμόσια, asseverations on oath; v. MM, xviii), [in LXX: Ez 17:18, 19 (אָלָה) I Es 9:93*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3728 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
swearing, oath, LXX+NT+2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | horkōmosias | horkōmosiais |
| object accusative | horkōmosian | horkōmosiain |
| direct address vocative | horkōmosiar | horkōmosiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | horkōmosiau4×ὁρκωμοσίας | horkōmosiaiu |
| to, for dative | horkōmosia | horkōmosiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
horkōmosia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
horkōmosiau“oath”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
Hebrews 7:20Kai kata hosem ouk chōris horkōmosiau tois men gar chōris horkōmosiau alō …… none of this happened without an oath. For others became priests without an …
Hebrews 7:20… chōris horkōmosiau tois men gar chōris horkōmosiau alō hierevois genarēntois,… For others became priests without an oath,
Hebrews 7:21tos de meta horkōmosiau dia tou legarōntou pros auton; Omnuata …… Jesus became a priest with an oath by the One who said to …
Hebrews 7:28… echarōntoin asthenian, tos logos de tau horkōmosiau tau meta ton nomon huion, eis …… men who are weak; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed …