ὅρκος, ὅρκου, ὁ (from ἔργῳ, εἴργω; equivalent to ἕρκος an enclosure, confinement; hence, Latinorcus) (from Homer down), the Sept. for ωΒΡαεΜςΘδ, an oath: Mat_14:7; Mat_14:9; Mat_26:72; Mar_6:26; Luk_1:73 (Winers Grammar, 628 (583); Buttmann, § 144, 13); Act_2:30 (Winer's Grammar, 226 (212); 603 (561)); Heb_6:16; Jas_5:12; by metonymy, that which has been pledged or promised with an oath; plural vows, Mat_5:33 ((cf. Wünsche ad loc.)).

ὅρκος horkos 10x an oath, Mat_14:7 ; Mat_14:9 ; Mat_26:72 ; meton. that which is solemnly promised, a vow, Mat_5:33 oath.

ὅρκος , -ου , ὁ , [in LXX chiefly for H7773 , H7655 and cogn . forms;] an oath: Mat_14:7 ; Mat_26:72 , Luk_1:73 , Act_2:30 , Heb_6:16-17 , Jas_5:12 ; p1., Mat_5:33 ( LXX ) Mat_14:9 , Mar_6:26 .†

ὅρκος [page 457] P Petr III. 56 ( d ) .12 (iii/B.C.) ὤμοσά σοι τὸν πάτριον ὅρκον ἐπὶ τοῦ ποταμο̣υ̣̑ , ib. 104 .10 (B.C. 244 3) κε [χει ]ρογραφήκασι τὸν εἰθισμένον ὅρκον τοσούτου μεμισθῶσθαι they have written under their hands the usual oath that it was let for this amount (Edd.) with reference to a farm holding, BGU III. 1002 .15 (B.C. 55) ἐὰν δέ τίς σοι ὅρκος ἢ ἐπίδειξις ἐπιβληθῆι περὶ αὐτῶν , ἐγὼ αὐτὸς ἐπιτελέσωι κτλ . a deed of sale, and P Ryl II. 88 .26 (A.D. 156) ἢ ἔνοχος εἴην τῷ ὅρκ [ῳ , otherwise may I be liable to the consequences of the oath a common formula. Cf. also the unusual formula P Eleph 23 .20 (B.C. 223 2) ε [ὐ ]ορκοῦ [ντι ] μέμ μ [ο ]ι [ε ]ὖ εἴη , ἐφιορκοῦντι δὲ ἔνοχον̣ εἶναι τῆι ἀσεβείαι τοῦ ὅρκου . With Luk_1:73 cf. Pelagia-Legenden p. 13 .9 ἐν ὅρκῳ ὅρκῳ εἶχεν τοῦ μὴ γεύσασθαί τι . For an oath sworn on the Gospels see P Lond V. 1708 .228 (A.D. 567?) ἑκάστου τούτων ἐνωμότως θεμένου ὅρκον ἐπάνω τῶν σεπτῶν μεγαλί (= εί )ων , and cf. P Mon I. 1 .26 (A.D. 574) τὸν ἐνώμοτον καὶ φρικτὸν ὅρκον ἐπὶ τῶν θείων καὶ ἀχράντων καὶ σεπτῶν κειμηλίων ( relics ). On various forms of oaths from the inscrr. see Herwerden Lex, s.v. ὅρκος , and for the idea of fence, something that shuts you in (cf. the cognate ἕρκος ), underlying the word cf. Murray Rise of the Greek Epic , p. 265 f. The dim. ὅρκιον is found in OGIS 453 .25 (B.C. 39 35).

ὅρκος ὅρκος, ὁ, "the object by which one swears, the witness of an oath", as the Styx among the gods, Hom. , etc.:—hence, "an oath", id=Hom. , etc.; ὅρκος θεῶν "an oath by" the gods, Od. ; ὅρκον ὀμόσαι to swear "an oath", Hom. , etc.; ὅρκον ἐπιορκεῖν to take a false "oath", Aeschin. ; ὅρκον διδόναι καὶ δέξασθαι to tender "an oath" to another and accept "the tender" from him, Hdt. , attic; ὅρκον ἀποδιδόναι to take "an oath", ἀπολαμβάνειν to tender it, Dem. ; so, ὅρκον διδόναι καὶ λαμβάνειν Arist. ; ὅρκοις τινὰ καταλαμβάνειν "to bind" one by oaths, Thuc. ; ὅρκῳ ἐμμένειν "to abide by" it, Eur. ; εἶπαι ἐπ᾽ ὅρκου to say "on oath", Hdt. Ὅρκος, personified, son of Ἔρις, a divinity, who punishes the perjured, Hes. , etc. [Etym: ὅρκος was orig. equiv. to ἕρκος, as ὁρκάνη to ἑρκάνη, from ἔργω, εἴργω, properly, "that which restrains from doing" a thing.]

ὅρκος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for שֶׁוַע, שִׁבְעָה and cogn. forms ;] an oath: Mat.14:7 26:72, Luk.1:73, Act.2:30, Heb.6:16-17, Jas.5:12; p1., Mat.5:33 (LXX) Mat.14:9, Mrk.6:26.† (AS)