zeugem

Strong’sG2201

a yoke, team, pair

stem zeug-2 times in the New Testament0 of 6 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.

ζεῦγος, -εος (-ους), τό

(< ζεύγνυμι, to yoke), [in LXX chiefly for צֶמֶד, Jg 19:3, al.;]

1. a yoke of beasts: Lk 14:19.

2. a pair of anything, Lk 2:24(LXX).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2201 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiddzyoo'-gos

a couple, i.e. a team (of oxen yoked together) or brace (of birds tied together)

Fromfrom the same as G2218;

King Jamesyoke, pair.

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

ζεῦγος, εος, τό,
(ζεύγνυμι) yoke of beasts, pair or team of mules, oxen or horses, Refs 8th c.BC+; ζ. ἵππων Refs 5th c.BC+
2 carriage drawn by a yoke of beasts, a chariot, ζεύγεϊ κομίζεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ ζευγέων ἐλάσασαιRefs 5th c.BC+; wagons, ζεύγεσι τοὺς λίθους ἄγουσι Refs 4th c.BC+; βοεικά Refs 5th c.BC+; racing-car,= τέθριππον, Refs 5th c.BC+; ζ. μίσθιον a hired chariot, Refs; λευκὸν ζ. with white horses, Refs 4th c.BC+
II pair or couple of any things, ἰρήκων, αἰγυπιῶν, Refs 5th c.BC+; πεδέωνRefs 5th c.BC+; [κεράμων] Refs 4th c.BC+; θυρῶν Refs 4th c.BC+: absolutely, married couple, τὸ ζ., ὃ καλεῖται θῆλυ καὶ ἄρρεν Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ἐρωτικὸν ζ. Refs 2nd c.AD+; κατὰ ζεῦγος in pairs, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 mouthpiece of a double flute, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 ζ. ἱματίων suit of clothes, Refs 3rd c.AD+
III incorrectly also of more than two things or persons joined together, ζ. τριπάρθενον three maiden sisters, of the Graces, Refs 5th c.BC+; ζ. νεκρῶν, where parents and children are spoken of, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV = Latin jugerum, Refs 4th 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.

a pair1×yoke1×

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 or object direct	zeugem	zeugeim
of, belonging to genitive	zeugeu	zeugeiu
to, for dative	zeuge	zeugei

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

zeugstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

zeuge 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.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

zeugem1×

Luke 2:24… tem legorēntem en to nomo kuriou, zeugem trugōnaiu ē duo nossoin peristeraiu.… in the Law of the Lord: “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”

Zeugeim1×

Luke 14:19kai heteros legata; Zeugeim bouoiu agorazama pente kai poreuomō dokimazara …Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going …