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.
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Oppress
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James 2:6
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
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3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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עָשַׁק
ʻâshaq · aw-shak'
9 times translated as this KJV form37 total Strong's occurrences
to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow
Strong's KJV usage: get deceitfully, deceive, defraud, drink up, (use) oppress(-ion), -or), do violence (wrong).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 24:14Strong's last: Malachi 3:5
Open full H6231 profile →יָנָה
yânâh · yaw-naw'
5 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to rage or be violent; by implication, to suppress, to maltreat
Strong's KJV usage: destroy, (thrust out by) oppress(-ing, -ion, -or), proud, vex, do violence.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 25:14Strong's last: Ezekiel 45:8
Open full H3238 profile →לָחַץ
lâchats · law-khats'
5 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to distress
Strong's KJV usage: afflict, crush, force, hold fast, oppress(-or), thrust self.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 3:9Strong's last: Jeremiah 30:20
Open full H3905 profile →καταδυναστεύω
katadynasteúō · kat-ad-oo-nas-tyoo'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to exercise dominion against, i.e. oppress
Strong's KJV usage: :--oppress.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: James 2:6Strong's last: James 2:6
Open full G2616 profile →דָּכָא
dâkâʼ · daw-kaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to crumble; transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite.
Strong's first: Proverbs 22:22Strong's last: Proverbs 22:22
Open full H1792 profile →עָרַץ
ʻârats · aw-rats'
1 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
to awe or (intransitive) to dread; hence, to harass
Strong's KJV usage: be affrighted (afraid, dread, feared, terrified), break, dread, fear, oppress, prevail, shake terribly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 10:18Strong's last: Psalms 10:18
Open full H6206 profile →שָׁדַד
shâdad · shaw-dad'
1 times translated as this KJV form57 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage
Strong's KJV usage: dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), × utterly, (lay) waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 17:9Strong's last: Psalms 17:9
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H3905
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.
H3905
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
H3905
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
H3238
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
H3238
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
H3238
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.
H6231
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:
H3905
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.
H6231
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?
H6206
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
H7703
From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
H6231
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
H1792
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
H3238
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.
H6231
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:
H3905
Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
H3238
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.
H6231
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
H6231
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.
H6231
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.
H6231
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.
H6231
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.
G2616
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
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oppress
OPPRESS', verb transitive [Latin appressus, from opprimo; ob and premo, to press.]
1. To load or burden with unreasonable impositions; to treat with unjust severity, rigor or hardship; as, to oppress a nation with taxes or contributions; to oppress one by compelling him to perform unreasonable service.
2. To overpower; to overburden; as, to be oppressed with grief.
3. to sit or lie heavy on; as, excess of good oppresses the stomach.
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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