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צֶמֶד
tsemed · Hebrew · Strong's H6776 · 15 occurrences
The KJV renders 5 different Hebrew and Greek words as “yoke”
What it means
hence, an acre (i.e. day's task for a yoke of cattle to plough)
a yoke or team (i.e. pair);
How the KJV renders it
acre, couple, two, yoke
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“yoke”
also renders zygós (G2218), zeûgos (G2201), môwṭâh (H4133), ʻôl (H5923)
Where it appears
15 occurrences in the Hebrew text.
1 Kings 19:19 · HNcmpa
So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him and put his mantle on him.
1 Kings 19:21 · HNcmsc
He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, killed them, and boiled their meat with the oxen’s equipment, and gave to the people; and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.
1 Samuel 11:7 · HNcmsc
He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, then sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.
1 Samuel 14:14 · HNcmsc
That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.
2 Kings 5:17 · HNcmsc
Naaman said, “If not, then, please let two mules’ load of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh.
2 Kings 9:25 · HNcmpa
Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:
2 Samuel 16:1 HC/NcmscIsaiah 5:10 HNcmpcIsaiah 21:7 HNcmscIsaiah 21:9 HNcmscJudges 19:3 HC/NcmscJudges 19:10 HNcmscJeremiah 51:23 HC/Ncmsc/Sp3msJob 1:3 HNcmscJob 42:12 HNcmsc
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