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To crush

θραύωStrong’s G2352

thrauō

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Thrauō is the Greek word usually translated “oppressed”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,”
Luke 4:18 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “oppressed”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • oppressed 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    θραύω thrauō · to crush

    θραύω [in LXX for 1,21 (Deu.28:33, Isa.42:4 58:6), etc. ;] to break in pieces, shatter; metaphorically, to break down: Luk.4:18 (LXX).† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “crush” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    CRUSH, verb transitive

    1. To press and bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to force a thing out of its natural shape; to bruise by pressure.
    2. To press with violence; to force together into a mass.
    3. To overwhelm by pressure; to beat or force down, by an incumbent weight, with breaking or bruising; as, the man was crushed by the fall of a tree.“Who are crushed before the moth” Job 4:19
    4. To overwhelm by power; to subdue; to conquer beyond resistance; as, to crush ones enemies; to crush a rebellion.
    All definitions and other forms of “crush”
    1. To oppress grievously.“Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always” Deuteronomy 28:33
    2. To bruise and break into fine particles by beating or grinding; to comminute.

    CRUSH, verb intransitive

    To be pressed into a smaller compass by external weight or force.

      CRUSH, noun

      A violent collision, or rushing together, which breaks or bruises the bodies; or a fall that breaks or bruises into a confused mass; as the crush of a large tree, or of a building.

        Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

        Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.