zygos · yoke, scales

What it means

zygos (ζυγός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “yoke, scales”.

Yoke: the wooden bar that joins oxen for work; an image of a burden or rule one accepts, such as a teaching or slavery. Also the beam of a pair of scales.

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. What is imposed and must be borne.
2. An instrument with two pans for weighing; in Revelation it signals scarcity.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

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

• yoke ×5
• pair of scales ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Acts×1
• Galatians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 11:29

  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

• Matthew 11:30

  For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

• Acts 15:10

  Now then, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

• Galatians 5:1

  For freedom the Messiah has set us free; stand firm, then, and do not be subjected again to a yoke of slavery.

• 1 Timothy 6:1

  Let all who are under the yoke as slaves consider their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed.

• Revelation 6:5

  And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come!” And I looked, and look, a black horse, and the one who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.