Strong G3727ὅρκος
oath
- Transliteration
- horkos
- Pronunciation
- hor'-kos her'-kos
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From ἕρκος herkos (a fence; perhaps akin to G3725); a limit that is (sacred) restraint (specifically oath): - oath.
Detailed definition
ὅρκος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for שֶׁוַע, שִׁבְעָה and cogn. forms;]
an oath: Mat.14:7 26:72, Luk.1:73, Act.2:30, Heb.6:16-17, Jas.5:12; p1., Mat.5:33 (LXX) Mat.14:9, Mrk.6:26.†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for שֶׁוַע, שִׁבְעָה and cogn. forms;]
an oath: Mat.14:7 26:72, Luk.1:73, Act.2:30, Heb.6:16-17, Jas.5:12; p1., Mat.5:33 (LXX) Mat.14:9, Mrk.6:26.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3727 appears in 10 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- oath8
- sake2
First verses
- Matthew 5:33Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
- Matthew 14:7Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.
- Matthew 14:9And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath’s sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
- Matthew 26:72And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.
- Mark 6:26And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath’s sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
- Luke 1:73The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
- Acts 2:30Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
- Hebrews 6:16For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
- Hebrews 6:17Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
- James 5:12But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ὅρκος, ὁ,
the object by which one swears, as the Styx among the gods, Στυγὸς ὕδωρ, ὅς τε μέγιστος ὅ. δεινότατός τε πέλει μακάρεσσι θεοῖσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.38, compare 2.755, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 400, 784, 805, “hymnus ad Cererem” 259, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 983b31)]; or as Zeus among mortals, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.167)]; so of things, ὅρκον δ᾽ ἐνοσφίσθης μέγαν, ἅλας τε καὶ τράπεζαν [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 96; οἷς ἦν μέγιστος ὅ... κύων, ἔπειτα χήν 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 231, compare “Placita Philosophorum” 1.3.8: hence,)]
2 oath, mostly with epithet μέγας, καρτερός, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (see. below))], etc.; θεῶν ὅ. an oath by the gods, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.377; μακάρων ὅ. 10.299, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 647, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 657; ὅ. ἐκ θεῶν μέγας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1284; ὅ. κατὰ τῶν.. ὀφθαλμῶν 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.153)]; ὅ. πλατύς a firm-based oath, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 30.3)]; ὅρκον ὀμόσαι swear an oath, ὄμοσέν τε τελεύτησέν τε τὸν ὅ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.378, etc.; ὅ. ἀπώμνυ [prev. work] 377, compare 10.381; ἐπὶ δ᾽ ὅρκον ὀμεῖται 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 194; κατομόσαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 790)]; ὅ. ἐπιορκῆσαι take a false oath, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.115, etc.)]; ὅρκου προστεθέντος when an oath is added, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 472, compare “El.” 47)]; δαίμονι τῷ Πλεισθενιδῶν ὅρκους θεμένη having made a sworn compact with.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1570 (_anapaest meter_); ὅ. ἀλλήλοις ποιοῦνται οἱ μὲν ἔφοροι ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως, βασιλεὺς δ᾽ ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 15.7; ὅρκους συνῆψαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1241, etc.)]; of the person demanding the oath, ὅ. ἑλέσθαι τινός or τινί take it of him, i.e. make him swear, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.746, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.119)]; ὅρκους ἐπελάσαι and προσάγειν τινί lay oath upon a man, put him on his oath, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.146, 6.62, 74)]; τὸν ὅ... ἐπάγειν.. Ὀποντίοις readminister the oath, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 9(1).334.12 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC))]; ὅρκους δοὺς καὶ δεξάμενος after tendering his oath to them and accepting theirs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.23, compare “IG” 12.52.18, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 429, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 589, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 39.3 and 4; so ὅρκον διδόναι καὶ λαμβάνειν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1377a7, 8)]; ἀποδοῦναι take it oneself, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.318, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.74)]; ἀπολαμβάνειν administer or tender it, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 5.9, 18.25)]; ὅρκους καὶ πίστιν ἀλλήλοις δότε swear to one another, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1185, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.107)]; ὅρκοις καταλαβὼν τὰ τέλη having bound the authorities by oaths, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.86; ὅρκοις κατειλημμένους [prev. author] 1.9)]; ὅρκῳ ἐμμένειν abide by it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 754; ὅ. τηρεῖν 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 239; παραβαίνειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 286.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 332, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.318; ἐκβάντι τῶν ὅ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 183b; ἐκλιπεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1194; συγχέαι [prev. author] “Hipp.” 1063; ἐμπεδοῦν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.10: after ὅρκος)] aorist, present, or future infinitive may refer to future time, ὤμοσα καρτερὸν ὅ., μὴ.. ἀναφῆναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.253)]; ἐμεῦ δ᾽ ἕλετο μέγαν ὅ., μὴ πρὶν σοὶ ἐρέειν[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 746; ὅρκους ἔδοσαν καὶ ἔλαβον, ἀποδοῦναι.., Ἀθηναίους δὲ μὴ πολεμεῖν.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.3.9: with Preps., οὐκ αὔτως.., ἀλλὰ σὺν ὅρκῳ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.151; σὺν θεῶν ὅρκῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.12)]; εἶπαι ἐπ᾽ ὅρκου say on oath, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.11; κατὰ τοὺς ὅ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.54; opposed to παρ᾽ ὅρκον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.83; παρὰ τοὺς ὅ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.5.41: proverbial, ὅρκους ἐγὼ γυναικὸς εἰς ὕδωρ γράφω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 811; parodied by 5th c.BC: Philonides Comicus 7 ὅρκους δὲ μοιχῶν εἰς τέφραν.. γράφω,compare 4th c.BC: Xenarchus Comicus 6, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 25.)]
II Ὅρκος, personified, son of Eris, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 804)]; a divinity who punishes the false and perjured,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 219, “Th.” 231, Oracle texts cited in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.86.γ)]; Διὸς Ὅ., as servant of Zeus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1767 (_anapaest meter_). (Cogn. with ἕρκος.))]
the object by which one swears, as the Styx among the gods, Στυγὸς ὕδωρ, ὅς τε μέγιστος ὅ. δεινότατός τε πέλει μακάρεσσι θεοῖσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.38, compare 2.755, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 400, 784, 805, “hymnus ad Cererem” 259, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 983b31)]; or as Zeus among mortals, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.167)]; so of things, ὅρκον δ᾽ ἐνοσφίσθης μέγαν, ἅλας τε καὶ τράπεζαν [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 96; οἷς ἦν μέγιστος ὅ... κύων, ἔπειτα χήν 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 231, compare “Placita Philosophorum” 1.3.8: hence,)]
2 oath, mostly with epithet μέγας, καρτερός, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (see. below))], etc.; θεῶν ὅ. an oath by the gods, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.377; μακάρων ὅ. 10.299, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 647, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 657; ὅ. ἐκ θεῶν μέγας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1284; ὅ. κατὰ τῶν.. ὀφθαλμῶν 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.153)]; ὅ. πλατύς a firm-based oath, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 30.3)]; ὅρκον ὀμόσαι swear an oath, ὄμοσέν τε τελεύτησέν τε τὸν ὅ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.378, etc.; ὅ. ἀπώμνυ [prev. work] 377, compare 10.381; ἐπὶ δ᾽ ὅρκον ὀμεῖται 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 194; κατομόσαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 790)]; ὅ. ἐπιορκῆσαι take a false oath, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.115, etc.)]; ὅρκου προστεθέντος when an oath is added, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 472, compare “El.” 47)]; δαίμονι τῷ Πλεισθενιδῶν ὅρκους θεμένη having made a sworn compact with.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1570 (_anapaest meter_); ὅ. ἀλλήλοις ποιοῦνται οἱ μὲν ἔφοροι ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως, βασιλεὺς δ᾽ ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 15.7; ὅρκους συνῆψαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1241, etc.)]; of the person demanding the oath, ὅ. ἑλέσθαι τινός or τινί take it of him, i.e. make him swear, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.746, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.119)]; ὅρκους ἐπελάσαι and προσάγειν τινί lay oath upon a man, put him on his oath, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.146, 6.62, 74)]; τὸν ὅ... ἐπάγειν.. Ὀποντίοις readminister the oath, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 9(1).334.12 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC))]; ὅρκους δοὺς καὶ δεξάμενος after tendering his oath to them and accepting theirs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.23, compare “IG” 12.52.18, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 429, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 589, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 39.3 and 4; so ὅρκον διδόναι καὶ λαμβάνειν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1377a7, 8)]; ἀποδοῦναι take it oneself, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.318, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.74)]; ἀπολαμβάνειν administer or tender it, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 5.9, 18.25)]; ὅρκους καὶ πίστιν ἀλλήλοις δότε swear to one another, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1185, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.107)]; ὅρκοις καταλαβὼν τὰ τέλη having bound the authorities by oaths, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.86; ὅρκοις κατειλημμένους [prev. author] 1.9)]; ὅρκῳ ἐμμένειν abide by it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 754; ὅ. τηρεῖν 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 239; παραβαίνειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 286.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 332, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.318; ἐκβάντι τῶν ὅ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 183b; ἐκλιπεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1194; συγχέαι [prev. author] “Hipp.” 1063; ἐμπεδοῦν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.10: after ὅρκος)] aorist, present, or future infinitive may refer to future time, ὤμοσα καρτερὸν ὅ., μὴ.. ἀναφῆναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.253)]; ἐμεῦ δ᾽ ἕλετο μέγαν ὅ., μὴ πρὶν σοὶ ἐρέειν[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 746; ὅρκους ἔδοσαν καὶ ἔλαβον, ἀποδοῦναι.., Ἀθηναίους δὲ μὴ πολεμεῖν.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.3.9: with Preps., οὐκ αὔτως.., ἀλλὰ σὺν ὅρκῳ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.151; σὺν θεῶν ὅρκῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.12)]; εἶπαι ἐπ᾽ ὅρκου say on oath, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.11; κατὰ τοὺς ὅ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.54; opposed to παρ᾽ ὅρκον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.83; παρὰ τοὺς ὅ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.5.41: proverbial, ὅρκους ἐγὼ γυναικὸς εἰς ὕδωρ γράφω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 811; parodied by 5th c.BC: Philonides Comicus 7 ὅρκους δὲ μοιχῶν εἰς τέφραν.. γράφω,compare 4th c.BC: Xenarchus Comicus 6, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 25.)]
II Ὅρκος, personified, son of Eris, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 804)]; a divinity who punishes the false and perjured,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 219, “Th.” 231, Oracle texts cited in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.86.γ)]; Διὸς Ὅ., as servant of Zeus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1767 (_anapaest meter_). (Cogn. with ἕρκος.))]