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Oppress

10Greek/Hebrew entries

23stored occurrences

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Greek G2616 katadynasteúō

Original: καταδυναστεύω

Meaning:
from κατά and a derivative of δυνάστης; to exercise dominion against, i.e. oppress:--oppress.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to exercise dominion against, i.e. oppress:--oppress.

Hebrew H1792 dâkâʼ

Original: דָּכָא

Meaning:
a primitive root (compare דָּכָה); to crumble; transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively); beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite.

Hebrew H3238 yânâh

Original: יָנָה

Meaning:
a primitive root; to rage or be violent; by implication, to suppress, to maltreat; destroy, (thrust out by) oppress(-ing, -ion, -or), proud, vex, do violence.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: destroy, (thrust out by) oppress(-ing, -ion, -or), proud, vex, do violence.

Hebrew H3905 lâchats

Original: לָחַץ

Meaning:
a primitive root; properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to distress; afflict, crush, force, hold fast, oppress(-or), thrust self.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: afflict, crush, force, hold fast, oppress(-or), thrust self.

Hebrew H5065 nâgas

Original: נָגַשׂ

Meaning:
a primitive root; to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by implication, to tax, harass, tyrannize; distress, driver, exact(-or), oppress(-or), [idiom] raiser of taxes, taskmaster.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: distress, driver, exact(-or), oppress(-or), [idiom] raiser of taxes, taskmaster.

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Hebrew H6206 ʻârats

Original: עָרַץ

Meaning:
a primitive root; to awe or (intransitive) to dread; hence, to harass; be affrighted (afraid, dread, feared, terrified), break, dread, fear, oppress, prevail, shake terribly.

Hebrew H6231 ʻâshaq

Original: עָשַׁק

Meaning:
a primitive root (compare עָשַׂק); to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow; get deceitfully, deceive, defraud, drink up, (use) oppress(-ion), -or), do violence (wrong).

Hebrew H6887 tsârar

Original: צָרַר

Meaning:
a primitive root; to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive; adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.

Hebrew H7533 râtsats

Original: רָצַץ

Meaning:
a primitive root; to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively; break, bruise, crush, discourage, oppress, struggle together.

Hebrew H7703 shâdad

Original: שָׁדַד

Meaning:
a primitive root; properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage; dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), [idiom] utterly, (lay) waste.

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^{Exodus 3:9} 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. Open

^{Exodus 22:21} Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Open

^{Exodus 23:9} Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Open

^{Leviticus 25:14} And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbor, or buyest ought of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: Open

^{Leviticus 25:17} Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God. Open

^{Deuteronomy 23:16} He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him. Open

^{Deuteronomy 24:14} Thou 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: Open

^{Judges 10:12} The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand. Open

^{Job 10:3} Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? Open

^{Psalm 10:18} To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. Open

^{Psalm 17:9} From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about. Open

^{Psalm 119:122} Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. Open

^{Proverbs 22:22} Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: Open

^{Isaiah 49:26} And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. Open

^{Jeremiah 7:6} If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Open

^{Jeremiah 30:20} Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. Open

^{Ezekiel 45:8} In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes. Open

^{Hosea 12:7} He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. Open

^{Amos 4:1} Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. Open

^{Micah 2:2} And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. Open

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^{Zechariah 7:10} 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. Open

^{Malachi 3:5} And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. Open

^{James 2:6} But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? Open

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