Lexical Summary heterozygeō: to be yoked up differently, to be unequally yoked Original Word: ἑτεροζυγέωTransliteration: heterozygeō Phonetic Spelling: (het-er-od-zoog-eh'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be yoked up differently, to be unequally yoked Meaning: to be yoked up differently, to be unequally yoked Strong's Concordance unequally yoke together with. From a compound of heteros and zugos; to yoke up differently, i.e. (figuratively) to associate discordantly -- unequally yoke together with. see GREEK heteros see GREEK zugos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2086: ἑτεροζυγέωἑτεροζυγέω, ἑτεροζύγῳ; (ἑτερόζυγος yoked with a different yoke; used in Leviticus 19:19 of the union of beasts of different kinds, e. g. an ox and an ass), to come under an unequal or different yoke (Beza,impari jugo copulor), to be unequally yoked: τίνι (on the dative see Winers Grammar, § 31, 10 N. 4; Buttmann, § 133, 8), tropically, to have fellowship with one who is not an equal: 2 Corinthians 6:14, where the apostle is forbidding Christians to have contact with idolaters. |
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