Word study · Greek
heterozygéō
to be yoked unequally
Say it: het-er-od-zoo-GEH-oh (approximate)
ἑτεροζυγέω
What it means
To be yoked with someone different (heteros "different" plus zygos "yoke"), as when two different animals are harnessed together. It appears only in 6:14, probably echoing Deuteronomy 22:10, where Israel was not to plow with an ox and donkey together.
Range of meaning
- Be mismatchedJoined to an unlike partner.
- Be yokedBound together.
In 2 Corinthians
- Chapter 6
"Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers" (6:14).
Every verse (1)
Verses where G2086 is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources