ΟΡΚΟΝ, ορκον
ORKON, orkon
Sounds Like: OR-kon
Translations: oath, an oath
From the root: ΟΡΚΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a solemn promise or vow, often made with an appeal to a divine being or sacred object as a witness. It signifies a binding declaration that invokes a higher power to guarantee its truthfulness or fulfillment. It is used in sentences to denote the act of swearing or the promise itself.
Inflection: Accusative, Singular, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3727 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 2:8
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Chronicles — 16:16
- Judith — 8:11, 8:30
- 1 Maccabees — 7:18
- Ecclesiastes — 9:2
- Jeremiah — 11:5
- Luke — 1:73
- Epistle of Barnabas — 2:8
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 7:9
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 26:3
- Numbers — 30:3
- Deuteronomy — 7:8
- Joshua — 9:26
- 1 Samuel — 14:26
- 2 Samuel — 21:7
- 1 Kings — 2:43
- 1 Chronicles — 16:16
- Judith — 8:11, 8:30
- Tobit — 9:3
- 1 Maccabees — 7:18
- 3 Maccabees — 5:42
- Odes — 13:73
- Ecclesiastes — 9:2
- Jeremiah — 11:5
- Zechariah — 8:17
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΟΡΚΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΝΟΡΚΙΟΝ — oath, an oath, sworn oath, a sworn oath
- ἘΝΟΡΚΩΣ — under oath, with an oath, solemnly
- ΟΡΚΙΑ — oaths, pledges, sworn agreements
- ΟΡΚΟ — oath, an oath, a vow, an agreement
- ΟΡΚΟΙΣ — oaths, to oaths, by oaths
- ΟΡΚΟΣ — oath, an oath
- ΟΡΚΟΥ — of oath, of an oath, of a vow
- ΟΡΚΟΥΣ — oaths
- ΟΡΚΩ — (to) an oath, (by) an oath, (with) an oath
- ΟΡΚΩΝ — of oaths, of vows, of solemn promises
- ΤΟΙΣΟΡΚΟΙΣ — to oaths, to an oath, for oaths, for an oath
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