Strong's #5065: nagas (pronounced naw-gas')

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), X raiser of taxes, taskmaster.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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nâgaś

1) to press, drive, oppress, exact, exert demanding pressure

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to press, drive

1a2) to exact

1a3) driver, taskmaster, ruler, oppressor, tyrant, lord, exactor of tribute (participle)

1b) (Niphal) to be hard pressed

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 23 times:

 

Exodus 3:7: "are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know"
Exodus 5:6: "the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,"
Exodus 5:10: " And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying,"
Exodus 5:13: " And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks,"
Exodus 5:14: "of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded,"
Deuteronomy 15:2: "that lendeth aught unto his neighbor shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbor,"
Deuteronomy 15:3: "Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand"
1 Samuel 13:6: "they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets,"
1 Samuel 14:24: "And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured"
2 Kings 23:35: "according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of"
Job 3:18: "they hear not the voice of the oppressor."
Job 39:7: "neither regardeth he the crying of the driver."
Isaiah 3:5: "And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly"
Isaiah 3:12: "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err,"
Isaiah 9:4: "and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian."
Isaiah 14:2: "them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors."
Isaiah 14:4: "of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!"
Isaiah 53:7: " He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb"
Isaiah 58:3: "in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labors."
Isaiah 60:17: "I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness."
Daniel 11:20: "in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days"
Zechariah 9:8: "because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through"
Zechariah 10:4: "bow, out of him every oppressor together."