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Strong's #6217: `ashuwq (pronounced aw-shook')

or mashuq {aw-shook'}; passive participle of 6231; used in plural masculine as abstractly, tyranny:--oppressed(-ion). (Doubtful.)




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ּׁ

‛âshûq

1) oppression, extortion

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: passive participle of H6231



Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Job 35:9: "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty."
Ecclesiastes 4:1: "and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun:"
Ecclesiastes 4:1: "the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side"
Amos 3:9: "the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst"









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