To oppress
עָשַׁקStrong’s H6231ashaq (a-shaq)
Appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ashaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “oppressed”, “oppress” and “must oppress”. It appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament.
“And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.”
Meaning
- To press upon, oppress, violate, defraud, do violence, get deceitfully, wrong, extort(Qal) · (Pual) to be exploited, be crushed
How it's translated
- oppressed 5
- you will oppress 2
- you must oppress 2
- to oppress them 2
- oppresses 2
- they have oppressed 2
- he has oppressed 1
- he oppressed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 6
- Proverbs 4
- Leviticus 3
- Deuteronomy 3
- Jeremiah 3
- 1 Samuel 2
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 6:2If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
- Leviticus 6:4Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
- Leviticus 19:13Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
- Deuteronomy 24:14Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
- Deuteronomy 28:29And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
- Deuteronomy 28:33The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
All 35 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
עָשַׁק ashaq · to oppress
1) to press upon, oppress, violate, defraud, do violence, get deceitfully, wrong, extort 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to oppress, wrong, extort 1a2) to oppress 1b) (Pual) to be exploited, be crushed
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.