ὅρκος

From Proto-Indo-European *serḱ- (“to fence”). Cognate with ἕρκος (hérkos, “fence”), ὁρκάνη (horkánē, “fence”), ἑρκάνη (herkánē, “fence”), Latin sarciō.

ὅρκος • (hórkos) m (genitive ὅρκου); second declension

1. the object by which one swears, the witness of an oath, as the Styx was among the gods, or as Zeus was among mortals
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.38
2. an oath

   Synonym: ὅρκιον (hórkion)

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.377

• ὁρκίζω (horkízō)
• ὅρκιος (hórkios)
• ὁρκόω (horkóō)

• Greek: όρκος (órkos)

• “ὅρκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὅρκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὅρκος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὅρκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὅρκος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὅρκος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3727 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • affirmation idem, page 16.
  • asseveration idem, page 46.
  • oath idem, page 564.
  • swearing idem, page 847.