Strong's #3238: yanah (pronounced yaw-naw')

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.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yânâh

1) to oppress, suppress, treat violently, maltreat, vex, do wrong

1a) (Qal) to oppress, suppress

1b) (Hiphil) to treat violently, maltreat

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 19 times:

 

Exodus 22:21: "Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers"
Leviticus 19:33: "with thee in your land, ye shall not vex"
Leviticus 25:14: "buyest aught of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress one"
Leviticus 25:17: "Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God:"
Deuteronomy 23:16: "of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress"
Psalms 74:8: "They said Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God"
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:"
Jeremiah 22:3: "out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger,"
Jeremiah 25:38: "desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce"
Jeremiah 46:16: "the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword."
Jeremiah 50:16: "the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn"
Ezekiel 18:7: "And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none"
Ezekiel 18:12: " Hath oppressed and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge,"
Ezekiel 18:16: "Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withheld the pledge, neither hath spoiled"
Ezekiel 22:7: "of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow."
Ezekiel 22:29: "oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger"
Ezekiel 45:8: "and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give"
Ezekiel 46:18: "Moreover the prince take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession;"
Zephaniah 3:1: "Woe and polluted, to the oppressing city!"