KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: A frame fitted to the necks of draft animals, joining them for work. Sense 2: A pair of animals so joined. Sense 3: A bond, burden, service, or condition of subjection.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 27:40
Complete exact-word concordance
Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch-kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring the calues home from them.
And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
And he tooke a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoeuer commeth not foorth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it bee done vnto his oxen: and the feare of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
1611 marginal noteHeb. as one man.
And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
And that first slaughter which Ionathan and his armour-bearer made, was about twentie men, within as it were an halfe acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
1611 marginal noteOr, halfe a furrow of an acre of land.
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Source order
1 · Direct Scripture definition
my yoke is easy
2 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
A piece of timber ... fitted with bows for receiving the necks of oxen; by which means two are connected for drawing. ... A mark of servitude; slavery; bondage. ... A chain; a link; a bond of connection. ... A couple; a pair; as a yoke of oxen. ... Service.
