mota · yoke bar

What it means

mota (מוֹטָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “yoke bar”.

A bar or pole of wood of the yoke, set on the animal's neck; also a yoke.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A long pole placed on the shoulders to carry a load; the bar of a yoke.
2. A yoke; or oppression.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• yoke ×5
• bars ×3
• yokes ×3
• poles ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×2

• Leviticus 26:13

  I am YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.

• 1 Chronicles 15:15

  The sons of the Levites carried the ark of Elohim, as Moses had commanded according to the word of YHWH, on their shoulders, with the poles on them.

• Isaiah 58:6

  Is this not the fast that I choose: to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, and to set free the crushed, and that you break every yoke?

• Isaiah 58:9

  Then you will call, and YHWH will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove from your midst the yoke, the pointing of the finger and the speaking of wickedness,

• Jeremiah 27:2

  Thus YHWH said to me: “Make for yourself straps and yokes, and put them on your neck,

• Jeremiah 28:10

  Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.

• Jeremiah 28:12

  And the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, saying:

• Jeremiah 28:13

  “Go and say to Hananiah, saying: ‘Thus says YHWH: Yokes of wood you have broken, but you will make in their place yokes of iron.

• Ezekiel 30:18

  And in Tahpanhes the day will grow dark, when I break there the bars of Egypt, and the pride of her strength ceases in her; as for her, a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.

• Ezekiel 34:27

  And the tree of the field will give its fruit, and the land will give its harvest, and they will be on their ground securely; and they will know that I am YHWH, when I break the bars of their yoke and deliver them from the hand of those who made use of them.

And 2 more times.