Strong G2218ζυγός
yoke/scales
- Transliteration
- zugos
- Pronunciation
- dzoo-gos'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From the root of ζεύγνυμι zeugnumi (to join especially by a yoke); a coupling that is (figuratively) servitude (a law or obligation); also (literally) the beam of the balance (as connecting the scales): - pair of balances yoke.
Detailed definition
ζυγός (in cl. more frequently τὸ ζυγόν), -οῦ, ὁ
(ζεύγνυμι), [in LXX for עֹל, מֹאזֵן, etc.;]
1. a yoke; metaphorically, of bondage or submission to authority: Mat.11:29-30, Act.15:10, Gal.5:1, 1Ti.6:1.
2. a balance: Rev.6:5 (of. Isa.40:12, al.).†
(AS)
(ζεύγνυμι), [in LXX for עֹל, מֹאזֵן, etc.;]
1. a yoke; metaphorically, of bondage or submission to authority: Mat.11:29-30, Act.15:10, Gal.5:1, 1Ti.6:1.
2. a balance: Rev.6:5 (of. Isa.40:12, al.).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2218 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- yoke5
- balance1
First verses
- Matthew 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
- Matthew 11:30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
- Acts 15:10Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
- Galatians 5:1Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
- 1 Timothy 6:1Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
- Revelation 6:5And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ζῠγόν, τό,
also ζυγός, ὁ, (in various senses), [NT+5th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Cererem” 217, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 63b, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 30.29, LXX.Gen.27.40, +others, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.82.2, NT.Matt.11.29, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 5.173a, etc.)]: rarely in plural, ζυγοί [LXX+5th c.BC+ (LXX.Pro.11.1, Scholia 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.29)]: Delph. δυγός (which see).
I yoke of a plough or carriage, ζ. ἵππειον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.799, 23.392; ὑπὸ ζυγὸν ἤγαγεν ἵππους 5.731, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.383; ἐπὶ ζυγὸν αὐχένι θεῖναι βουσί 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 815, compare 581)]; ὑπὸ ζυγόφιν (i.e. ζυγοῦ) λύον ἵππους [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.576: proverbial, τὸν αὐτὸν ἕλκειν ζ)]. 'to be in the same boat', [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (5th c.AD: Aristaenetus Rhetor 2.7, 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 3.43; ταὔτ᾽ ἐμοὶ ζ. τρίβεις 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.12.)]
I.2 metaphorically, ἐπὶ ζυγὸς αὐχένι κεῖται [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Cererem” 217; ἐχθροῖσιν ὑπὸ ζυγὸν αὐχένα θήσω 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1023)]; ἐπαυχένιον λαβεῖν ζ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.93)]; δούλιον ζ. the yoke of slavery, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.8.γ, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 75 (_plural_), 471, etc.)]; δουλείας, ἀνάγκης ζ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 944, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1330; ὑπὸ ζυγῷ λόφον δικαίως εἶχον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 291)]; ἐπιτιθέναι τινὶ ζυγὰ τοῦ μὴ.. so as to prevent.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.27; ζυγῷ ζυγῆναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 508a; ἄγειν ὑπὸ τὸν ζ. τινάς 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.82.2, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 3.22; ὑπὸ τὸν ζ. ὑπαγαγεῖν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus “fragment” 36.10; ζυγὸν ὑποστῆναι 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 10.20.)]
II crossbar of the φόρμιγξ, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.187.)]
II.2 ζυγὸς ἡ τῆς ἀμπέλου πρὸς τὴν χάρακα συζυγία [Refs (“Geoponica” 5.29.6.)]
III in plural, thwarts or benches joining the opposite sides of a ship, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.99, 13.21, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.96)]: rarely in singular, θοὸν εἰρεσίας ζυγόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 249 (Lyric poetry))]: metaphorically, of the seat of authority compared to the helmsman's seat, ἐς τὸ πρῶτον πόλεος ζ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 595; ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπὶ ζυγοῖς καθέζετ᾽ ἀρχῆς [prev. author] “Ph.” 74)]; σὺ ταῦτα φωνεῖς νερτέρᾳ προσήμενος κώπῃ, κρατούντων τῶν ἐπὶ ζυγῷ δορό; while on the main thwart sits authority, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1618)]; also of a coachman's seat, box, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (PMasp. 303.15 (6th c.AD).)]
III.2 in plural, panels of a door, [Refs (“IG” 12.372.199,22.1457.14,1672.155)]; compare ζευγίον.
IV beam of the balance, ζυγὸν ταλάντου [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 822 (Lyric poetry), compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mechanica” 850a4)]: hence, the balance itself (compare πῆχυς IV), αἴρειν τὸν ζυγόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 63b)]; ἐν πλάστιγγι ζυγοῦ κεῖσθαι [Refs ([prev. author] “R.” 55o e)]; ζυγῷ or ἐν τῷ ζ. ἱστάναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.18, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 356b; ζυγὸν ἱστάναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 55: in _plural_, [prev. author] 25.46, “SIG” 975.39 (Delos, 3rd c.BC): proverbial, ζ. μὴ ὑπερβαίνειν 4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus cited in 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 8.18.)]
IV.b the constellation [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“Libra”, 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 3.1.5, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.28, 4th c.AD(?): Manetho Astrologus 2.137, etc.; ζ. Ἀφροδίτης 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Antro Nympharum - Porphyrii Opuscula” 22.)]
V καρχασίου the yard-arm at the mast head, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 5.51, compare 3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 5.16.)]
VI cross-strap of a sandal, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 417, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.81)]; ζυγός, ὁ, [Refs 9th c.AD+ (9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc.)]
VII pair, κλεινὸν ζυγόν, of persons, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 392)]; κατὰ ζυγά in pairs, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 544a5, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 13.32.)]
VIII rank or line of soldiers, opposed to file (στοῖχος), ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ ζ. ἐμάχοντο τέσσαρες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.68; ὁ ζυγός 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 4.4.3 (τὰ ζυγά 2.10.4))]; κατὰ ζυγόν line with line, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.45.9; κατ᾽ ἄνδρα καὶ ζ. [prev. author] 3.81.2)]; especially front rank, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Tactica - Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller” 7.1, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 8.1)]; also of the Chorus, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.108.)]
IX ζυγὰ ἢ ἄζυγα even or odd, a game, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 817.)]
X measure of land, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 963.13 (Amorgos, 4th c.BC).)]
also ζυγός, ὁ, (in various senses), [NT+5th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Cererem” 217, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 63b, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 30.29, LXX.Gen.27.40, +others, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.82.2, NT.Matt.11.29, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 5.173a, etc.)]: rarely in plural, ζυγοί [LXX+5th c.BC+ (LXX.Pro.11.1, Scholia 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.29)]: Delph. δυγός (which see).
I yoke of a plough or carriage, ζ. ἵππειον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.799, 23.392; ὑπὸ ζυγὸν ἤγαγεν ἵππους 5.731, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.383; ἐπὶ ζυγὸν αὐχένι θεῖναι βουσί 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 815, compare 581)]; ὑπὸ ζυγόφιν (i.e. ζυγοῦ) λύον ἵππους [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.576: proverbial, τὸν αὐτὸν ἕλκειν ζ)]. 'to be in the same boat', [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (5th c.AD: Aristaenetus Rhetor 2.7, 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 3.43; ταὔτ᾽ ἐμοὶ ζ. τρίβεις 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.12.)]
I.2 metaphorically, ἐπὶ ζυγὸς αὐχένι κεῖται [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Cererem” 217; ἐχθροῖσιν ὑπὸ ζυγὸν αὐχένα θήσω 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1023)]; ἐπαυχένιον λαβεῖν ζ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.93)]; δούλιον ζ. the yoke of slavery, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.8.γ, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 75 (_plural_), 471, etc.)]; δουλείας, ἀνάγκης ζ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 944, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1330; ὑπὸ ζυγῷ λόφον δικαίως εἶχον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 291)]; ἐπιτιθέναι τινὶ ζυγὰ τοῦ μὴ.. so as to prevent.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.27; ζυγῷ ζυγῆναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 508a; ἄγειν ὑπὸ τὸν ζ. τινάς 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.82.2, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 3.22; ὑπὸ τὸν ζ. ὑπαγαγεῖν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus “fragment” 36.10; ζυγὸν ὑποστῆναι 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 10.20.)]
II crossbar of the φόρμιγξ, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.187.)]
II.2 ζυγὸς ἡ τῆς ἀμπέλου πρὸς τὴν χάρακα συζυγία [Refs (“Geoponica” 5.29.6.)]
III in plural, thwarts or benches joining the opposite sides of a ship, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.99, 13.21, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.96)]: rarely in singular, θοὸν εἰρεσίας ζυγόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 249 (Lyric poetry))]: metaphorically, of the seat of authority compared to the helmsman's seat, ἐς τὸ πρῶτον πόλεος ζ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 595; ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπὶ ζυγοῖς καθέζετ᾽ ἀρχῆς [prev. author] “Ph.” 74)]; σὺ ταῦτα φωνεῖς νερτέρᾳ προσήμενος κώπῃ, κρατούντων τῶν ἐπὶ ζυγῷ δορό; while on the main thwart sits authority, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1618)]; also of a coachman's seat, box, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (PMasp. 303.15 (6th c.AD).)]
III.2 in plural, panels of a door, [Refs (“IG” 12.372.199,22.1457.14,1672.155)]; compare ζευγίον.
IV beam of the balance, ζυγὸν ταλάντου [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 822 (Lyric poetry), compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mechanica” 850a4)]: hence, the balance itself (compare πῆχυς IV), αἴρειν τὸν ζυγόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 63b)]; ἐν πλάστιγγι ζυγοῦ κεῖσθαι [Refs ([prev. author] “R.” 55o e)]; ζυγῷ or ἐν τῷ ζ. ἱστάναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.18, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 356b; ζυγὸν ἱστάναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 55: in _plural_, [prev. author] 25.46, “SIG” 975.39 (Delos, 3rd c.BC): proverbial, ζ. μὴ ὑπερβαίνειν 4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus cited in 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 8.18.)]
IV.b the constellation [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“Libra”, 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 3.1.5, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.28, 4th c.AD(?): Manetho Astrologus 2.137, etc.; ζ. Ἀφροδίτης 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Antro Nympharum - Porphyrii Opuscula” 22.)]
V καρχασίου the yard-arm at the mast head, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 5.51, compare 3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 5.16.)]
VI cross-strap of a sandal, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 417, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.81)]; ζυγός, ὁ, [Refs 9th c.AD+ (9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc.)]
VII pair, κλεινὸν ζυγόν, of persons, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 392)]; κατὰ ζυγά in pairs, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 544a5, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 13.32.)]
VIII rank or line of soldiers, opposed to file (στοῖχος), ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ ζ. ἐμάχοντο τέσσαρες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.68; ὁ ζυγός 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 4.4.3 (τὰ ζυγά 2.10.4))]; κατὰ ζυγόν line with line, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.45.9; κατ᾽ ἄνδρα καὶ ζ. [prev. author] 3.81.2)]; especially front rank, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Tactica - Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller” 7.1, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 8.1)]; also of the Chorus, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.108.)]
IX ζυγὰ ἢ ἄζυγα even or odd, a game, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 817.)]
X measure of land, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 963.13 (Amorgos, 4th c.BC).)]