Words the Bible translates as yoke
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- zugosζυγόςa yoke: the wooden bar laid across the neck to bind someone to a load or a master, and so a picture of being placed under an authority, from crushing servitude to willing service
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- a pair of scales: the balance beam from which two weighing pans hang, used to measure out goods by weight
- olעֹלyoke: the wooden bar fastened over the neck of a draft animal, and by extension the burden of subjection it pictures
- tsemedצֶמֶדa matched pair: two animals or riders taken together, especially a team of oxen joined at a single yoke
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- an acre: a measure of farmland, as much ground as a yoke of oxen could plow in a day
- motahמוֹטָהthe wooden crossbar borne on the neck or shoulders: nearly always the bar of a yoke, and so the Bible's standing picture of forced servitude
- motמוֹטa length of timber that bears weight: the pole two people carry a load on, and the crossbar of a yoke laid over a neck
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- a slipping: the moment a foot gives way under someone
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