To oppress
יָנָהStrong’s H3238yanah (ya-nah)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yanah is the Hebrew word usually translated “oppressor”, “maltreat” and “has oppressed”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
Meaning
- To oppress, suppress, treat violently, maltreat, vex, do wrong(Qal) to oppress, suppress · (Hiphil) to treat violently, maltreat
How it's translated
- the oppressor 3
- you will maltreat 2
- you maltreat 2
- he has oppressed 2
- they have maltreated 2
- you must maltreat 1
- you will maltreat him 1
- let us oppress them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 7
- Jeremiah 4
- Leviticus 3
- Exodus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 19:33And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
- Leviticus 25:14And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
- Leviticus 25:17Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God:for I am the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 23:16He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
- Psalms 74:8They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
- Isaiah 49:26And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Hebrew dictionary
יָנָה yanah · to oppress
1) to oppress, suppress, treat violently, maltreat, vex, do wrong 1a) (Qal) to oppress, suppress 1b) (Hiphil) to treat violently, maltreat
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “oppressor” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OPPRESS'OR, noun
One that oppresses; one that imposes unjust burdens on others; one that harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.