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mot, the wooden bow (ol) bound to the ox's neck: the two are combined, "bands of the yoke" (; ; , rather "thou hast broken the yoke and burst the bands which I laid on thee," i.e. My laws, setting them at defiance, ; ). Contrast the world's heavy yoke (; ; ; ) with Christ's "easy yoke" (-30). Tsemed, a pair of oxen (), or donkeys (); a couple of horsemen (); also what land a pair of oxen could plow in a day (, "ten acres," literally, ten yokes; Latin: jugum, jugerum; ).