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Strong's G3726 ὁρκίζω (horkizo)

Horkizo means “adjure” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3726 — kepharhaammoni (“Chefarhaamonai”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3726
Language Greek
Linked Usages 30
Books 15

Strong's G3726 Quick Answer

Strong's G3726 ὁρκίζω (horkizo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. horkizo (hor-kid'-zo) v. 1. to put on oath, i.e. make swear 2. (by analogy) to solemnly enjoin It has 30 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include adjure and charge. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
horkizo (hor-kid'-zo) v. 1. to put on oath, i.e. make swear 2. (by analogy) to solemnly enjoin
Usage
30 linked usages
Books
15 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
adjure and charge

Meaning and Definition

horkizo (hor-kid'-zo) v. 1. to put on oath, i.e. make swear 2. (by analogy) to solemnly enjoin [from G3727] KJV: adjure, charge Root(s): G3727

Original Word
ὁρκίζω
Transliteration
horkizo
Derivation
Root: ὅρκος R1: 3727
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3726. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to adjure

Usage: ὁρκίζω (ὅρκος), [in LXX: Gen.24:37, al. (שָׁבַע hi.) ;] __1. to make one swear (Xen., Polyb., a1.). __2. to adjure: with dupl. accusative, Mrk.5:7, Act.19:13 (cf. ἐν-, ἐξ-ορκίζω).† (AS)

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How Strong's G3726 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render horkizo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

adjure Mark 5:7 charge 1 Thessalonians 5:27

How Strong's G3726 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 25 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3726 (ὁρκίζω) appears 28 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3726 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3726 in the New Testament

3 indexed usages in New Testament.

Mark 5:7 KJV

And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

Acts 19:13 KJV

Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

1 Thessalonians 5:27 KJV

I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.

Strong's G3726 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

25 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 24:37 Septuagint / Brenton

And my master caused me to swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I sojourn in their land.

Genesis 50:5 Septuagint / Brenton

My father adjured me, saying, In the sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there thou shalt bury me; now then I will go up and bury my father, and return again.

Genesis 50:6 Septuagint / Brenton

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Go up, bury thy father, as he constrained thee to swear.

Strong's G3726 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 1:46 Septuagint / Brenton

And made Zedekiah king of Judea and Jerusalem, when he was one and twenty years old; and he reigned eleven years:

1 Esdras 8:92 Septuagint / Brenton

Then Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the children of Israel, called out and said, O Ezra, we have sinned against the Lord; we have married strange women of the nations of the land, and now is all Israel aloft.

Usage Excerpts

First 30 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3726.

Genesis 24:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And my master caused me to swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I sojourn in their land.
Genesis 50:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My father adjured me, saying, In the sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there thou shalt bury me; now then I will go up and bury my father, and return again.
Genesis 50:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Go up, bury thy father, as he constrained thee to swear.
Genesis 50:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they came to Joseph, and said, Thy father adjured us before his death, saying,
Genesis 50:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joseph adjured the sons of Israel, saying, At the visitation with which God shall visit you, then ye shall carry up my bones hence with you.
Exodus 13:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had solemnly adjured the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones hence with you.
Numbers 5:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall adjure her, and shall say to the woman, If no one has lain with thee, and if thou hast not transgressed so as to be polluted, being under the power of thy husband, be free from this water of the conviction that causes the curse.
Numbers 5:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then the priest shall adjure the woman by the oaths of this curse, and the priest shall say to the woman, The Lord bring thee into a curse and under an oath in the midst of thy people, in that the Lord should cause thy thigh to rot and thy belly to swell;
Joshua 6:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua adjured them on that day before the Lord, saying, Cursed be the man who shall build that city: he shall lay the foundation of it in his firstborn, and he shall set up the gates of it in his youngest son. And so did Hozan of Bethel; he laid the foundation in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates of it in his youngest surviving son.
1 Kingdoms 14:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jonathan had not heard when his father adjured the people; and he reached forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and dipped it into the honeycomb, and returned his hand to his mouth, and his eyes recovered their sight.
1 Kingdoms 14:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And one of the people answered and said, Thy father solemnly adjured the people, saying, Cursed is the man who shall eat bread today. And the people were very faint,
3 Kingdoms 2:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
3 Kingdoms 2:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.
3 Kingdoms 22:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king said to him, How often shall I adjure thee, that thou speak to me truth in the name of the Lord?
4 Kingdoms 11:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and took the captains of hundreds of the Carites and of the Rhasim, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant of the Lord with them, and adjured them, and Jehoiada showed them the king’s son.
2 Chronicles 18:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king said to him, How often shall I solemnly charge thee that thou speak to me nothing but truth in the name of the Lord?
2 Chronicles 36:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
not to do: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart, so as not to return to the Lord God of Israel.
Ezra 10:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.
Nehemiah 5:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
Nehemiah 13:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
Song of Solomon 2:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, By the powers and by the virtues of the field, That ye do not rouse or wake my love, until he please.
Song of Solomon 3:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the powers and by the virtues of the field, That ye rouse not nor awake my love, until he please.
Song of Solomon 5:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the powers and the virtues of the field: If ye should find my kinsman, what are ye to say to him? That I am wounded with love.
Song of Solomon 5:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, O thou beautiful among women? What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, That thou hast so charged us?
Song of Solomon 8:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, By the virtues of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
Mark 5:7 New Testament, KJV
And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
Acts 19:13 New Testament, KJV
Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
1 Thessalonians 5:27 New Testament, KJV
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
1 Esdras 1:46 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And made Zedekiah king of Judea and Jerusalem, when he was one and twenty years old; and he reigned eleven years:
1 Esdras 8:92 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the children of Israel, called out and said, O Ezra, we have sinned against the Lord; we have married strange women of the nations of the land, and now is all Israel aloft.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3726, grouped by book.

Genesis 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3726 FAQ

What does horkizo (ὁρκίζω) mean?

Horkizo (Strong's G3726) is a Greek word most simply glossed "adjure". horkizo (hor-kid'-zo) v. 1. to put on oath, i.e. make swear 2. (by analogy) to solemnly enjoin

How many times is horkizo (ὁρκίζω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 30 linked usages for Strong's G3726 across 15 books.

Where can I study horkizo (ὁρκίζω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3726 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate horkizo (ὁρκίζω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as adjure and charge. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3726 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 25 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3726, with linked reader references where each row is available.