To oppress
לָחַץStrong’s H3905lachats (la-chats)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lachats is the Hebrew word usually translated “oppressed”, “oppressing” and “must oppress him”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.”
Meaning
- To squeeze, press, oppress(Qal) · (Niphal) to squeeze oneself
How it's translated
- he oppressed 2
- oppressing 1
- you must oppress him 1
- you must oppress 1
- and it squeezed itself 1
- and it squeezed 1
- and they pressed 1
- oppressed them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 5
- Exodus 3
- 2 Kings 3
- Psalms 2
- Numbers 1
- 1 Samuel 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 22:21Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 23:9Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 22:25And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
- Judges 1:34And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
- Judges 2:18And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
- Judges 4:3And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Hebrew dictionary
לָחַץ lachats · to oppress
1) to squeeze, press, oppress 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to squeeze, press 1a2) to oppress 1b) (Niphal) to squeeze oneself
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “oppressed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OPPRESS'ED, participle passive
burdened with unreasonable impositions; overpowered; overburdened; depressed.
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.