Ezekiel 22:12
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
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Extortion
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Matthew 23:25
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
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ἁρπαγή
harpagḗ · har-pag-ay'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
pillage (properly abstract)
Strong's KJV usage: :--extortion, ravening, spoiling.
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Strong's first: Matthew 23:25Strong's last: Matthew 23:25
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ʻôsheq · o'-shek
1 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
injury, fraud, (subjectively) distress, (concretely) unjust gain
Strong's KJV usage: cruelly, extortion, oppression, thing (deceitfully gotten).
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Strong's first: Ezekiel 22:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 22:12
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
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extortion
EXTOR'TION, noun The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting any thing from a person by force, duress, menaces, authority, or by any undue exercise of power; illegal exaction; illegal compulsion to pay money, or to do some other act. extortion is an offense punishable at common law.
1. Force or illegal compulsion by which any thing is taken from a person.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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