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To oppress

עָשַׁקStrong’s H6231

ashaq (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.”
Zechariah 7:10 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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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.