ol is a neck-borne yoke, used for animal harnessing and for the burdens of forced service, rule, or discipline.

The term most often marks a burden placed on people’s necks in contexts of service, domination, or release from oppressive rule. It also names the harness placed on animals, while a few passages use the same image for a burden to be borne in personal or disciplinary settings.

1. Burden of imposed service or domination · dominant

   In Jeremiah 27:8 and Jeremiah 27:12, the construct form occurs in commands to put the neck under the king of Babylon’s yoke and serve him. In 1 Kings 12:4, the people ask for relief from their father’s harsh service and heavy yoke; in Ezekiel 34:27, breaking the bars of their yoke accompanies rescue from those who enslaved them.

   Jeremiah 27:8Jeremiah 27:121 Kings 12:4Ezekiel 34:27Isaiah 10:27Deuteronomy 28:48
2. Animal harness laid on the neck · occasional

   In Numbers 19:2 and Deuteronomy 21:3, the absolute form describes a heifer on which no yoke has come or which has not drawn one. In 1 Samuel 6:7, two nursing heifers are specified as animals on which a yoke has not come before they are bound to a cart.

   Numbers 19:2Deuteronomy 21:31 Samuel 6:7Hosea 11:4
3. A burden borne or broken · occasional

   In Lamentations 1:14, the construct form is linked with transgressions bound together and rising on the speaker’s neck. In Lamentations 3:27, the absolute form is the burden a man is said to bear in youth; Jeremiah 5:5 places breaking the yoke beside tearing bonds.

   Lamentations 1:14Lamentations 3:27Jeremiah 5:5Jeremiah 2:20

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as “yoke,” especially when it is laid on, placed upon, brought under, broken, or removed from a neck. In the supplied verses it also frames the image with “harsh service,” bonds, burdens, and enslavement; these are features of the surrounding translated clauses rather than word-by-word alignment.