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Lexicon :: Strong's H6231 - ʿāšaq

Aa
עָשַׁק
Transliteration
ʿāšaq
Pronunciation
aw-shak'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root (comp. עָשַׂק (H6229))
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1713

Strong’s Definitions

עָשַׁק ʻâshaq, aw-shak'; a primitive root (compare H6229); to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow:—get deceitfully, deceive, defraud, drink up, (use) oppress(-ion), (-or), do violence (wrong).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H6231 in the following manner: oppress (23x), oppressor (4x), defraud (3x), wrong (2x), deceived (1x), deceitfully gotten (1x), oppression (1x), drink up (1x), violence (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H6231 in the following manner: oppress (23x), oppressor (4x), defraud (3x), wrong (2x), deceived (1x), deceitfully gotten (1x), oppression (1x), drink up (1x), violence (1x).

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

    1. (Qal)

      1. to oppress, wrong, extort

      2. to oppress

    2. (Pual) to be exploited, be crushed

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עָשַׁק ʻâshaq, aw-shak'; a primitive root (compare H6229); to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow:—get deceitfully, deceive, defraud, drink up, (use) oppress(-ion), (-or), do violence (wrong).
STRONGS H6231: Abbreviations
† עָשַׁק verb oppress, wrong, extort (Targum עֲשַׁק = Biblical Hebrew, so Old Aramaic עשק; Syriac bdb079807 accuse, slander; Assyrian adjective ešḳu, strong; Arabic bdb079808 roughness, injustice); —
Qal Perfect ע׳ Leviticus 5:21; Ezekiel 18:18; 2nd person masculine singular suffix עֲשַׁקְתָּ֫נוּ 1 Samuel 12:4, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix יַעַשׁקֻנִי Psalm 119:122; 2nd person masculine singular תַּעֲשֹׁק Leviticus 19:13 +, etc.; Infinitive construct עֲשֹׁק Hosea 12:8, suffix עָשְׁקָם 1 Chronicles 16:21; Psalm 105:14; Participle active עשֵׁק Proverbs 14:31 +, feminine plural הָעשְׁקוֺת Amos 4:1, etc.; passive עָשׁוּק Deuteronomy 28:29 +, etc.; —
1. oppress, wrong (often by extortion, || גָּזַל), with accusative of person 1 Samuel 12:3, 4; Micah 2:2; Leviticus 5:21; Leviticus 19:13; especially the poor and helpless Amos 4:1; Deuteronomy 24:14; Jeremiah 7:6; Ezekiel 22:29; Zechariah 7:10; Proverbs 14:31; Proverbs 22:16; Proverbs 28:3; Ecclesiastes 4:1; also with accusative of congnate meaning with verb עשֶׁק (וְ)גָזַל גָּזֵל ע׳ Ezekiel 18:18 practise extortion, Ezekiel 22:29, take by extortion Leviticus 5:23 and (with accusative of thing) Malachi 3:5; absolute Hosea 12:8 practise extortion; Job 10:3 deal tyrannically (of God); participle oppressor, extortioner Jeremiah 21:12; Psalm 72:4; Ecclesiastes 4:1; passive participle as substantive the oppressed Psalm 103:6; Psalm 146:7.
2. oppress a nation Isaiah 52:4, compare Psalm 105:14 = 1 Chronicles 16:21; Psalm 119:122, participle act. oppressor Psalm 119:121, passive participle oppressed Jeremiah 50:33, in predict. וְגָזוּל ע׳ Deuteronomy 28:29, וְרָצּוּץ ע׳ Deuteronomy 28:23; Hosea 5:11.
3. dubious are: יַעְשֹׁק נָהָר Job 40:23 a river oppresses him, i.e. rushes violently upon him (that is, the hippopotamus; Du יָשֹׁק, from שׁוּק; > Gunk Bu יִשְׁקַע falls, sinks); עָשֻׁק בְּדַם נֶפֶשׁ Proverbs 28:17 oppressed (? burdened) with the blood of a person.
Pu. Participle feminine הַמְּעֻשָּׁקָה Isaiah 23:12 crushed (of conquered Sidon under figure of woman).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

19:13; 19:13

Deuteronomy

24:14; 28:23; 28:29; 28:29

1 Samuel

12:3; 12:4; 12:4

1 Chronicles

16:21; 16:21

Job

10:3; 40:23

Psalms

72:4; 103:6; 105:14; 105:14; 119:121; 119:122; 119:122; 146:7

Proverbs

14:31; 14:31; 22:16; 28:3; 28:17

Ecclesiastes

4:1; 4:1

Isaiah

23:12; 52:4

Jeremiah

7:6; 21:12; 50:33

Ezekiel

18:18; 18:18; 22:29; 22:29

Hosea

5:11; 12:8; 12:8

Amos

4:1; 4:1

Micah

2:2

Zechariah

7:10

Malachi

3:5

H6231

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6231 matches the Hebrew עָשַׁק (ʿāšaq),
which occurs 36 times in 35 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2 - If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his neighbour,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:4 - Causing sin to come on him, then he will have to give back the thing he took by force or got by cruel acts, or the goods which were put in his care or the thing he came on by chance,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 - Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14 - Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29 - You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:33 - The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:3 - Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:4 - And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:21 - He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept back kings because of them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:3 - What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:23 - Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:4 - May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:6 - The Lord gives decisions in righteousness for all who are in trouble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:14 - He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept back kings because of them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:121

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:121 - <AIN> I have done what is good and right: you will not give me into the hands of those who are working against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:122

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:122 - Take your servant's interests into your keeping; let me not be crushed by the men of pride.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:7 - Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:31 - He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:16 - He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:3 - A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:17 - One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:1 - And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:12 - And he said, There is no more joy for you, O crushed virgin daughter of Zidon: up! go over to Kittim; even there you will have no rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4 - For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6 - If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:12 - O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:33 - This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:18 - As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:29 - The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:11 - Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:7 - As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:1 - Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:2 - They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:10 - Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 - And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
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