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# עֹל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5923

**yoke** — used 40 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

yoke [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5923/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֹל²: n.m. yoke [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5923/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 K 12:4 yoke;—ע׳ abs. Ho 11:4 +; cstr. Is 9:3 +; sf. עֻלֵּךְ Je 2:20 Is 47:6, עֻלּוֹ Gn 27:40 +, עֻלְּכֶם 1 K 12:11, etc.;—yoke, for cattle, עָלָה עֲלֵיהֶם ע׳ 1 S 6:7, cf. Nu 19:2 (P), מָֽשְׁכָה בְּע׳ Dt 21:3; usually fig. of servitude 1 K 12:4, 10, 11(×2), 14(×2) = 2 Ch 10:4, 10, 11(×2), 14; נָתַן ע׳ עַל 1 K 12:4, 9 = 2 Ch 10:4, 9; וְנָתַן ע׳ בַּרְזֶל עַל־צַוָּארֶ֑ךָ Dt 28:48, so Je 28:14; עַל־זָקֵן הִכְבַּדְתְּ ע׳ Is 47:6; also אֶת־צַוָּארוֹ בְּעֹל (הֵבִיא) נָתַן Je 27:8, 11, 12; שָׁבַר ע׳ break the yoke Je 2:20; 5:5; 28:2, 4, 11; 30:8 (+ מֵעַל צ׳), so מֹטֹת ע׳ Lv 26:13 (H), Ez 34:27 (v. מוֹטָה); פָּרַק ע׳ Gn 27:40 (J; + מֵעַל צ׳); הֵחֵת ע׳ Is 9:3; cf. הֵרִים ע׳ Ho 11:4; also יָסוּר ע׳ מֵעַל צ׳ Is 10:27, and 14:25; fig. of transgressions La 1:14, del. ע׳ 𝔊 𝔙 Löhr Bu, but read עֹל v b (v. id.); of hardship, נָשָׂא ע׳ 3:27.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 34 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (24 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (17 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: yoke (17); a yoke (9); the yoke (8).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.27/#tree)

ט֣וֹב לַגֶּ֔בֶר כִּֽי־יִשָּׂ֥א עֹ֖ל בִּנְעוּרָֽיו׃ס

*Word for word:* \[is\].good for (the) man (cmp) he.will.bear a.yoke in youth(s) his

*JPS 1917:* It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

[Jeremiah 28:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.28.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.28.2/#tree)

כֹּֽה־אָמַ֞ר יְהוָ֧ה צְבָא֛וֹת אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר שָׁבַ֞רְתִּי אֶת־עֹ֖ל מֶ֥לֶךְ בָּבֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* thus he.says Yahweh of.hosts the.God of.Israel (cmp) I.will.break (et) the.yoke of.the.king of.Babylon

*JPS 1917:* 'Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5923.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5923/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).