Oppression
עָשׁוּקִיםStrong’s H6217ashuq (a-shuq)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ashuq is the Hebrew word usually translated “oppression” and “oppressed”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.”
Meaning
- Oppression, extortion
How it's translated
- oppression 1
- the oppression 1
- the oppressed 1
- and oppression 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Amos 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ecclesiastes 4:1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
- Amos 3:9Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
עָשׁוּקִים ashuq · oppression
oppression, extortion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “oppression” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OPPRES'SION, noun
- The act of oppressing; the imposition of unreasonable burdens, either in taxes or services; cruelty; severity.
- The state of being oppressed or overburdened; misery.“the Lord - saw the oppression of Israel” 2 Kings 13:4
- Hardship; calamity.
- Depression; dullness of spirits; lassitude of body.
All definitions
- A sense of heaviness or weight in the breast, etc.
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.