Coercion
עֹ֫צֶרStrong’s H6115otser (o-tser)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Otser is the Hebrew word usually translated “from pressure of”, “barrenness of” and “from oppression”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.”
Meaning
- Restraint, coercionbarrenness (of womb)
How it's translated
- from pressure of 1
- and barrenness of 1
- from oppression 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 30:16The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
- Isaiah 53:8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Hebrew dictionary
עֹ֫צֶר otser · coercion
1) restraint, coercion 1a) restraint, coercion 1b) barrenness (of womb)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “coercion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COERCION, noun
Restraint, check, particularly by law or authority; compulsion; force.
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.