noun · masculine
horkos
Strong’sG3727
an oath
stem hork-10 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books5 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.
ὅρκος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for שֶׁבַע, שִׁבְעָה and cogn. forms;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3727 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhor'-kos
perhaps akin to G3725); a limit, i.e. (sacred) restraint (specially, an oath)
Fromfrom ἕρκος (a fence;
King Jamesoath.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
the object by which one swears, as the Styx among the gods, Στυγὸς ὕδωρ, ὅς τε μέγιστος ὅ. δεινότατός τε πέλει μακάρεσσι θεοῖσι Refs 8th c.BC+; or as Zeus among mortals, Refs 5th c.BC+; so of things, ὅρκον δ᾽ ἐνοσφίσθης μέγαν, ἅλας τε καὶ τράπεζαν Refs 7th c.BC+
2 oath, mostly with epithet μέγας, καρτερός, Refs 8th c.BC+, etc.; θεῶν ὅ. an oath by the gods, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὅ. πλατύς a firm-based oath, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅρκον ὀμόσαι swear an oath, ὄμοσέν τε τελεύτησέν τε τὸν ὅ. Refs 8th c.BC+; ὅ. ἐπιορκῆσαι take a false oath, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὅρκου προστεθέντος when an oath is added, Refs 5th c.BC+; δαίμονι τῷ Πλεισθενιδῶν ὅρκους θεμένη having made a sworn compact with.., Refs 5th c.BC+; of the person demanding the oath, ὅ. ἑλέσθαι τινός or τινί take it of him, i.e. make him swear, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὅρκους ἐπελάσαι and προσάγειν τινί lay oath upon a man, put him on his oath, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸν ὅ... ἐπάγειν.. Ὀποντίοις readminister the oath, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅρκους δοὺς καὶ δεξάμενος after tendering his oath to them and accepting theirs, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀποδοῦναι take it oneself, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἀπολαμβάνειν administer or tender it, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὅρκους καὶ πίστιν ἀλλήλοις δότε swear to one another, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅρκοις καταλαβὼν τὰ τέλη having bound the authorities by oaths, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅρκῳ ἐμμένειν abide by it, Refs 5th c.BC+ aorist, present, or future infinitive may refer to future time, ὤμοσα καρτερὸν ὅ., μὴ.. ἀναφῆναι Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐμεῦ δ᾽ ἕλετο μέγαν ὅ., μὴ πρὶν σοὶ ἐρέεινRefs 8th c.BC+; εἶπαι ἐπ᾽ ὅρκου say on oath, Refs 5th c.BC+
II Ὅρκος, personified, son of Eris, Refs 8th c.BC+; a divinity who punishes the false and perjured,Refs 5th c.BC+; Διὸς Ὅ., as servant of Zeus, Refs 5th c.BC+
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.
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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 | horkos1×ὅρκος | horkois |
| object accusative | horkon2×ὅρκον | horkoin3×ὅρκους |
| direct address vocative | horkor | horkoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | horkou2×ὅρκου | horkoiu |
| to, for dative | horko2×ὅρκῳ | horkoi |
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
horko 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.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
horkos“oath”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 6:16… autoi antilogiau peratem eis bebaiōsian tos horkos;… someone greater than themselves, and their oath serves as a confirmation to end …
horkon“oath”objectaccusative singular2×
Luke 1:73horkon hon omnuata pros Abraam ton patron …the oath He swore to our father Abraham …
James 5:12… mēte tan gēan mēte alloson tinon horkon; atōr de vu tem Nai nai …… or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your “Yes” be yes …
horkou“oath”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Matthew 14:7hothen meta horkou homologata auta dōara hem ean aiteteia.… much that he promised with an oath to give to her whatever she …
Matthew 26:72kai palin arneta meta horkou hoti Ouk oidamē ton anthrōpon.… again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man!”
horko“oath”to, fordative singular2×
Acts 2:30profētos oun huparcharōntos, kai horarēntos hoti horko omnuata auto tos theos ek karpou …… that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of …
Hebrews 6:17… tem ametathetem tau boulau autou mesiteuata horko,… promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
horkoin“oaths”objectaccusative plural3×
Matthew 5:33“oaths”… epiorkasi, apodōasi de to kurio toin horkoin su.… your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’
Matthew 14:9kai lupirantos tos basilevos dia toin horkoin kai toin sunanakeiorōntoin keleuata dōira,… was grieved, but because of his oaths and his guests, he ordered that …
Mark 6:26… perilupos generantos tos basilevos dia toin horkoin kai toin anakeiorōntoin ouk thelata athetara …… with sorrow, but because of his oaths and his guests, he did not …