Strong's #6231: `ashaq (pronounced aw-shak')

a primitive root (compare 6229); to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow:--get deceitfully, deceive, defraud, drink up, (use) oppress((-ion)), -or), do violence (wrong).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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‛âshaq

1) to press upon, oppress, violate, defraud, do violence, get deceitfully, wrong, extort

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to oppress, wrong, extort

1a2) to oppress

1b) (Pual) to be exploited, be crushed

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root (comp. H6229)

Usage:

This word is used 36 times:

 

Leviticus 6:2: "in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbor;"
Leviticus 6:4: "the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which"
Leviticus 19:13: "Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired"
Deuteronomy 24:14: "Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or"
Deuteronomy 28:29: "in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man"
Deuteronomy 28:33: "eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always:"
1 Samuel 12:3: "ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand"
1 Samuel 12:4: "And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught"
1 Chronicles 16:21: "He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,"
Job 10:3: "Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine"
Job 40:23: "Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up"
Psalms 72:4: "the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor."
Psalms 103:6: "righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed."
Psalms 105:14: "He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;"
Psalms 119:121: "and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors."
Psalms 119:122: "for good: let not the proud oppress"
Psalms 146:7: "Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth"
Proverbs 14:31: " He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoreth him hath mercy on the poor."
Proverbs 22:16: " He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want."
Proverbs 28:3: "A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food."
Proverbs 28:17: "A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no"
Ecclesiastes 4:1: "and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter."
Isaiah 23:12: "Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise,"
Isaiah 52:4: "to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause."
Jeremiah 7:6: " If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent"
Jeremiah 21:12: "and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out"
Jeremiah 50:33: "of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast;"
Ezekiel 18:18: "As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did"
Ezekiel 22:29: "The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor"
Ezekiel 22:29: "and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully."
Hosea 5:11: "Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after"
Hosea 12:7: "of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress."
Amos 4:1: "that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say"
Micah 2:2: "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."
Zechariah 7:10: " And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine"
Malachi 3:5: "and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless,"