Word Study · Strong's H5923 · Hebrew
עֹל
ol
ole
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʻôl
“a yoke (as imposed on the neck), literally or figuratively”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a yoke (as imposed on the neck), literally or figuratively
Rendered in the KJV as
yoke.
- 40occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 12 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 25inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 40 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 25
- עֹ֖ל5
- עֹ֣ל4
- עֻלְּכֶ֔ם3
- עֻלְּכֶ֑ם3
- הָעֹ֔ל2
- וּמֵעֻלּ֧וֹ2
- עֻלֵּ֑נוּ2
- עֻלֵּ֔נוּ2
- בְּעֹ֖ל1
- בְּעֹ֥ל1
- בְּעֹ֣ל1
- בְּעֹֽל׃1
and 13 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 15
- yoke your8
- a yoke6
- [the] yoke of5
- yoke our4
- in [the] yoke of3
- a yoke of2
- and some of yoke his2
- the yoke2
- yoke his2
- [the] yoke1
- and yoke its1
- by a yoke1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 12
- noun · masculine singular8
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)7
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural6
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural4
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcmsa · 8
- HNcmsc · 7
- HNcmsc/Sp2mp · 6
- HNcmsc/Sp1bp · 4
- HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 3
- HR/Ncmsc · 3
- HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp3ms · 2
- HNcmsc/Sp2fs · 2
- HTd/Ncmsa · 2
- HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms · 1
- HNcmsc/Sp3mp · 1
- HR/Ncmsa · 1
All 40, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Jeremiah10 of 40 · 25%
- 1 Kings8 of 40 · 20%
- 2 Chronicles7 of 40 · 18%
- Isaiah5 of 40 · 13%
- Deuteronomy2 of 40 · 5%
Jeremiah carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Deuteronomy2 occurrences
- Deuteronomy 21:3בְּעֹֽל׃beolpreposition + noun · masculine singularThen the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,here: by a yoke
- Deuteronomy 28:48עֹ֤לʾolnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.here: a yoke of
1 Kings8 occurrences
- 1 Kings 12:4עֻלֵּ֑נוּʾulenunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”here: yoke our
- 1 Kings 12:4וּמֵעֻלּ֧וֹumeuloconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”here: and some of yoke his
- 1 Kings 12:9הָעֹ֔לhaolthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularHe asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”here: the yoke
- 1 Kings 12:10עֻלֵּ֔נוּʾulenunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluralThe young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!here: yoke our
- 1 Kings 12:11עֹ֣לʾolnoun · masculine singularWhereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”here: a yoke
- 1 Kings 12:11עֻלְּכֶ֑םʾulekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluralWhereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”here: yoke your
- 1 Kings 12:14עֻלְּכֶ֔םʾulekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraland spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”here: yoke your
- 1 Kings 12:14עֻלְּכֶ֑םʾulekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraland spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”here: yoke your
2 Chronicles7 occurrences
- 2 Chronicles 10:4עֻלֵּ֑נוּʾulenunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”here: yoke our
- 2 Chronicles 10:4וּמֵעֻלּ֧וֹumeuloconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”here: and some of yoke his
- 2 Chronicles 10:9הָעֹ֔לhaolthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularHe asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”here: the yoke
- 2 Chronicles 10:10עֻלֵּ֔נוּʾulenunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluralThe young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!here: yoke our
- 2 Chronicles 10:11עֹ֣לʾolnoun · masculine singularWhereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”here: a yoke
- 2 Chronicles 10:11עֻלְּכֶ֑םʾulekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluralWhereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”here: yoke your
- 2 Chronicles 10:14עֻלְּכֶ֔םʾulekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraland spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”here: yoke your
Isaiah5 occurrences
- Isaiah 9:4עֹ֣לʾolnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.here: [the] yoke of
- Isaiah 10:27וְעֻלּ֖וֹveuloconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singularOn that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.here: and yoke its
- Isaiah 10:27עֹ֖לʾolnoun · masculine singularOn that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.here: [the] yoke
- Isaiah 14:25עֻלּ֔וֹulonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singularI will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”here: yoke its
- Isaiah 47:6עֻלֵּ֖ךְʾulekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singularI was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.here: yoke your
Jeremiah10 occurrences
- Jeremiah 2:20עֻלֵּ֗ךְʾulekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.here: yoke your
- Jeremiah 5:5עֹ֔לʾolnoun · masculine singularI will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.here: a yoke
- Jeremiah 27:8בְּעֹ֖לbeolpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.here: in [the] yoke of
- Jeremiah 27:11בְּעֹ֥לbeolpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”here: in [the] yoke of
- Jeremiah 27:12בְּעֹ֣לbeolpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!here: in [the] yoke of
- Jeremiah 28:2עֹ֖לʾolnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.here: [the] yoke of
- Jeremiah 28:4עֹ֖לʾolnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)And I will restore to this place Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the LORD, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”here: [the] yoke of
- Jeremiah 28:11עֹ֣ל׀ʾolnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)And in the presence of all the people Hananiah proclaimed, “This is what the LORD says: ‘In this way, within two years I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations.’” At this, Jeremiah the prophet went on his way.here: [the] yoke of
- Jeremiah 28:14עֹ֣לʾolnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of the beasts of the field.’”here: a yoke of
- Jeremiah 30:8עֻלּוֹ֙ulonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singularOn that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.here: yoke his
Lamentations2 occurrences
- Lamentations 1:14עֹ֨לʾolnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.here: [the] yoke of
- Lamentations 3:27עֹ֖לʾolnoun · masculine singularIt is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.here: a yoke