Strong's #3905: lachats (pronounced law-khats')
a primitive root; properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to distress:--afflict, crush, force, hold fast, oppress(-or), thrust self.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
lâchats
1) to squeeze, press, oppress
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to squeeze, press
1a2) to oppress
1b) (Niphal) to squeeze oneself
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 19 times:
Exodus 3:9: "the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress"
Exodus 22:21: "vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land"
Exodus 23:9: "Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger,"
Numbers 22:25: "the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed"
Numbers 22:25: "she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against"
Judges 1:34: "And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not"
Judges 2:18: "it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed"
Judges 4:3: "years he oppressed the children of Israel."
Judges 6:9: "you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drove them out"
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."
1 Samuel 10:18: "you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed"
2 Kings 6:32: "when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not"
2 Kings 13:4: "of Israel, because of Syria oppressed"
2 Kings 13:22: "But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days"
Psalms 56:1: "would swallow me up; daily oppresseth"
Psalms 106:42: "Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand."
Isaiah 19:20: "unto the LORD because of the oppressors, them a savior, and a great one,"
Jeremiah 30:20: "before me, and I will punish all that oppress"
Amos 6:14: "the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in unto"
