ol · yoke

What it means

ol (עֹל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “yoke”.

The wooden piece joining two oxen; figuratively, being subject to another.

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. The wooden bar joining oxen; or another's rule.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×8
• 2 Chronicles×7
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×10
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 27:40

  By your sword you will live, and your brother you will serve; but it will be when you break loose that you will tear his yoke from your neck.”

• 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.

• Numbers 19:2

  “This is the statute of the instruction that YHWH has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel, that they bring you a red cow whole, on which there is no defect, and on which a yoke has never come.

• Deuteronomy 21:3

  And the city that is nearest to the slain one, the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd that has not been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke.

• Deuteronomy 28:48

  you will serve your enemies, whom YHWH will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in lack of everything; and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

• 1 Samuel 6:7

  So now, take and make one new cart and two nursing cows on which no yoke has come and hitch the cows to the cart, and take their calves back home from behind them.

• 1 Kings 12:4

  “Your father hardened our yoke; now you, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we will serve you.”

• 1 Kings 12:9

  He said to them, “What do you counsel that we answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”

• 1 Kings 12:10

  The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made heavy our yoke, but you, lighten it from on us’; thus you shall speak to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than the waist of my father.

• 1 Kings 12:11

  And now, my father loaded on you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

• 1 Kings 12:14

  and he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made heavy your yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

• 2 Chronicles 10:4

  “Your father hardened our yoke; so now lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we will serve you.”

• 2 Chronicles 10:9

  He said to them, “What do you counsel that we answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”

• 2 Chronicles 10:10

  The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall say to the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made heavy our yoke, but you, lighten it from on us’; thus you shall say to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than the waist of my father.

• 2 Chronicles 10:11

  And now, my father loaded on you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I with scorpions.’”

• 2 Chronicles 10:14

  and he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “I will make heavy your yoke, and I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I with scorpions.”

• Isaiah 9:4

  For the yoke of its burden and the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its oppressor, you have shattered as on the day of Midian.

• Isaiah 10:27

  And it will happen on that day that his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be destroyed because of fatness.

• Isaiah 14:25

  to break Assyria in my land, and on my mountains I will trample him; and his yoke will depart from them, and his burden will depart from his shoulder.”

• Isaiah 47:6

  I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and I gave them into your hand; you showed them no compassion; on the old man you made your yoke very heavy.

• Jeremiah 2:20

  For long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds, and you said, ‘I will not serve!’ For on every high hill and under every leafy tree you lay down, a prostitute.

• Jeremiah 5:5

  I will go to the great and speak with them, for they know the way of YHWH, the justice of their Elohim.” But they all alike had broken the yoke, had torn off the bonds.

• Jeremiah 27:8

  And it will be: the nation or the kingdom that will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with the sword and with the famine and with the pestilence I will punish that nation, declares YHWH, until I have finished off them by his hand.

• Jeremiah 27:11

  But the nation that brings its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, I will leave it on its own ground, declares YHWH, and it will till it and dwell in it.’”

• Jeremiah 27:12

  And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke according to all these words, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

• Jeremiah 28:2

  “Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel, saying: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

• Jeremiah 28:4

  And Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles of Judah who went to Babylon, I will bring back to this place, declares YHWH, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.”

• Jeremiah 28:11

  And Hananiah spoke before the eyes of all the people, saying: “Thus says YHWH: Like this I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two years' time from off the neck of all the nations.” And Jeremiah the prophet went his way.

• Jeremiah 28:14

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: A yoke of iron I have put on the neck of all these nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him; and even the animals of the field I have given him.’”

• Jeremiah 30:8

  And it will happen in that day, declares YHWH Tsevaot, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and your bonds I will tear apart; and strangers will no longer make him serve them,

• Lamentations 1:14

  Bound is the yoke of my transgressions; by his hand they are woven together; they have come up on my neck; he has made my strength stumble; Adonai has given me into the hands of those against whom I am not able to rise.

• Lamentations 3:27

  Good it is for the man that he bear a yoke in his youth.

• 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.

• Hosea 11:4

  With cords of humankind I drew them, with ropes of love; and I was to them like those who lift the yoke from their jaws; and I bent down to him and fed him.

And 6 more times.