Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5923
עֹל
olole
yoke
40 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻôl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5923is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 25spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5923
a yoke (as imposed on the neck), literally or figuratively
The King James renders it: yoke.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ol is rendered "yoke". It stands 40 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 27:40You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
- The Greek text spells it twenty-five different ways.
The first use
You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
Genesis 27:40עֻלּ֖וֹ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Ten of the word's forty uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- yoke your8
- a yoke6
- yoke of5
- yoke our4
- in yoke of3
- a yoke of2
- and some of yoke his2
- the yoke2
- yoke his2
- and yoke its1
- by a yoke1
- of a yoke1
and 3 more, 40 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 40, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
25 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- עֹ֖ל5
- עֹ֣ל4
- עֻלְּכֶ֔ם3
- עֻלְּכֶ֑ם3
- הָעֹ֔ל2
- וּמֵעֻלּ֧וֹ2
- עֻלֵּ֑נוּ2
- עֻלֵּ֔נוּ2
- בְּעֹ֖ל1
- בְּעֹ֥ל1
- בְּעֹ֣ל1
- בְּעֹֽל׃1
and 13 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular8HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)7HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural6HNcmsc/Sp2mp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural4HNcmsc/Sp1bp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HR/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2HNcmsc/Sp2fs
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
- עֻלּ֖וֹulonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: yoke his
Leviticus
one use
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.
- עֻלְּכֶ֔םʾulekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: yoke your
Numbers
one use
“This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.
- עֹֽל׃ʾolnoun · masculine singulartagged: a yoke
Deuteronomy
two uses
Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,
- בְּעֹֽל׃beolpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: by a yoke
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.
- עֹ֤לʾolnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a yoke of
1 Samuel
one use
Now, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
- עֹ֑לʾolnoun · masculine singulartagged: a yoke
1 Kings
eight uses
“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.”
- עֻלֵּ֑נוּʾulenunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: yoke our
- וּמֵעֻלּ֧וֹumeuloconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and some of yoke his
He 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’?”
- הָעֹ֔לhaolthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the yoke
The 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!
- עֻלֵּ֔נוּʾulenunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: yoke our
Whereas 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.’”
- עֹ֣לʾolnoun · masculine singulartagged: a yoke
- עֻלְּכֶ֑םʾulekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: yoke your
and 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.”
- עֻלְּכֶ֔םʾulekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: yoke your
- עֻלְּכֶ֑םʾulekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: yoke your
2 Chronicles
seven uses
“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.”
- עֻלֵּ֑נוּʾulenunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: yoke our
- וּמֵעֻלּ֧וֹumeuloconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and some of yoke his
He 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’?”
- הָעֹ֔לhaolthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the yoke
The 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!
- עֻלֵּ֔נוּʾulenunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: yoke our
Whereas 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.’”
- עֹ֣לʾolnoun · masculine singulartagged: a yoke
- עֻלְּכֶ֑םʾulekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: yoke your
and 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.”
- עֻלְּכֶ֔םʾulekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: yoke your
Isaiah
five uses
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.
- עֹ֣לʾolnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: yoke of
On 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.
- וְעֻלּ֖וֹveuloconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and yoke its
- עֹ֖לʾolnoun · masculine singulartagged: yoke
I 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.”
- עֻלּ֔וֹulonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: yoke its
I 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.
- עֻלֵּ֖ךְʾulekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: yoke your
Jeremiah
ten uses
“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.
- עֻלֵּ֗ךְʾulekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: yoke your
I 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.
- עֹ֔לʾolnoun · masculine singulartagged: a yoke
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.
- בְּעֹ֖לbeolpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in yoke 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.”
- בְּעֹ֥לbeolpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in yoke 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!
- בְּעֹ֣לbeolpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in yoke of
“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
- עֹ֖לʾolnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: yoke 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.’”
- עֹ֖לʾolnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: yoke 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.
- עֹ֣ל׀ʾolnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: yoke 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.’”
- עֹ֣לʾolnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a yoke of
On 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.
- עֻלּוֹ֙ulonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: yoke his
Lamentations
two uses
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.
- עֹ֨לʾolnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: yoke of
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
- עֹ֖לʾolnoun · masculine singulartagged: a yoke
Ezekiel
one use
The trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; My flock will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and delivered them from the hands that enslaved them.
- עֻלָּ֔םʾulamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: yoke their
Hosea
one use
I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.
- עֹ֖לʾolnoun · masculine singulartagged: of a yoke
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How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.