10 occurrences in 13 translations

'Yoke' in the Bible

By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingUnkindnessPoor, The Wicked Response ToGrinding PeopleNot Helping The Poorcrushes

For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toCivil LibertyYokesRemoving BurdensGod Freeing Captives

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

Verse ConceptsAnointingFatnessAnointing With OilCivil LibertyYokesShouldersRemoving BurdensRemoving People From Your LifeBreaking Chainsliberation

And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,

Verse ConceptsRest, PhysicalGod Giving RestSuccess And Hard Work

That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

Verse ConceptsCivil LibertyYokesTrampling PeopleRemoving Burdens

I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

Verse ConceptsMercy, HumanOld Age, Attitudes ToYokesDisrespect For Old AgeOppressorsJudgement On Old PeoplePeople Without Mercyrelentless

And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.

Verse ConceptsProstrationTorture

For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.

Verse ConceptsBeginningOppression, Nature Of

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Verse ConceptsYokesHow To FastPeople Releasing OthersInjusticeFastingFasting And PrayerBreaking Chainsliberation

Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

Verse ConceptsFingersCalling upon GodAnswered PromisesGod Will AnswerBehold Me!rumors

Bible Theasaurus

Brace (6 instances)
Brake (83 instances)
Bridle (14 instances)
Chain (19 instances)
Collar (10 instances)
Couple (23 instances)
Coupling (9 instances)
Halter (1 instance)
Harness (15 instances)
Lines (53 instances)
Twain (16 instances)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἑτεροζυγέω 
heterozugeo 
Usage: 1

ζεῦγος 
Zeugos 
Usage: 1

ζυγός 
Zugos 
Usage: 4

σύζυγος 
Suzugos 
Usage: 1

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain

King James Version Public Domain