Bible Dictionary
Yoke
A yoke was a wooden fitting used to join animals for plowing or hauling. Scripture also uses the term figuratively for bondage, oppression, subjection, discipline, or service; Jesus contrasted His easy yoke with burdensome teaching.
Biblical Usage
The yoke is frequently a figure for bondage, affliction, subjection, servitude, or discipline. In Jeremiah it represents oppressive submission; in one passage it represents the law of God. Jesus contrasts His yoke and teaching with burdensome scribal teaching, calling His yoke easy.
Scripture References
Numbers 19:2
Deuteronomy 21:3
Jeremiah 27:2
Jeremiah 28:10
Jeremiah 28:12
Leviticus 26:13
1 Kings 12:4
Isaiah 47:6
Lamentations 1:14
Lamentations 3:27
Matthew 11:29
Matthew 11:30
Acts 15:10
Galatians 5:1
1 Samuel 11:7
1 Samuel 11:1
Job 1:3
1 Samuel 14:14
Isaiah 5:10
1 Kings 12:9-11
Isaiah 9:4
Jeremiah 5:5
Jeremiah 28:13
1 Kings 19:19
1 Kings 19:21
Judges 19:10
2 Kings 5:17
Isaiah 21:7