Sense

1. an oath
2. that which is sworn to, the articles of a treaty, a solemn treaty, the treaties
3. the victims sacrificed on taking these solemn oaths
4. a surety resting on oath

Examples

• τίν’ οὖν ἐπόμνυσ τοισίδ’ ὁρ́κιον θεῶν; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric 5:22)
• ἃ σὺ δοκέεισ τέσσαρα, ταῦτα δέκα ἐστὶ καὶ τρίγωνον ἐντελὲσ καὶ ἡμέτερον ὁρ́κιον. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 4:6)
• ἴστω σίδηροσ ὁρ́κιόν τέ μοι ξίφοσ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 4:7)
• εἰ δὲ σὺν πόνῳ τισ εὖ πράσσοι, μελιγάρυεσ ὕμνοι ὑστέρων ἀρχὰ λόγων τέλλεται καὶ πιστὸν ὁρ́κιον μεγάλαισ ἀρεταῖσ. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 11 1:2)
• ἀνδροδάμαντ’ Ἐριφύλαν, ὁρ́κιον ὡσ ὅτε πιστόν, δόντεσ Οἰκλείδᾳ γυναῖκα, ξανθοκομᾶν Δαναῶν ἔσσαν μέγιστοι καί ποτε ἐσ<λὸν ἐσ> ἑπταπύλουσ Θήβασ ἄγαγον στρατὸν ἀνδρῶν αἰσιᾶν οὐ κατ’ ὀρνίχων ὁδόν· (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 9 7:1)

Similar forms

• ὁρ́κια (74)
• ὁρ́κιον (28)
• ὁρκίων (11)
• ὁρκίοισι (6)
• ὁρκίους (6)
• ὁρκισμοῦ (5)
• ὁρκίζω (5)
• ὁρ́κι (3)
• ὁρ́κιος (3)
• ὁρκιεῖ (2)
• ὁρ́κιά (2)
• ὁρκισμόν (2)
• ὁρκίσας (2)
• ὁρκικὸν (2)
• ὁρκίζειν (2)
• ὁρκίαν (1)
• Ὅρκιόν (1)
• ὁρκίσαι (1)
• Ὅρκιός (1)
• ὁρ́κιόν (1)
• ὁρκίοις (1)
• ὁρκίζουσι (1)
• ὁρ́κιε (1)
• ὁρκισθεὶς (1)
• Ὁρκίου (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.