King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G2086
Transliteration: 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
ἑτεροζυγέω, 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.
Word 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.