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# עָשׁוֹק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6216

**oppressor** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

oppressor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6216/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָשׁוֹק: oppressor, extortioner [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6216/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] oppressor, extortioner;—Je 22:3 (= עֹשֵׁק 21:12).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of an oppressor (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 22:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.3/#tree)

כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה עֲשׂ֤וּ מִשְׁפָּט֙ וּצְדָקָ֔ה וְהַצִּ֥ילוּ גָז֖וּל מִיַּ֣ד עָשׁ֑וֹק וְגֵר֩ יָת֨וֹם וְאַלְמָנָ֤ה אַל־תֹּנוּ֙ אַל־תַּחְמֹ֔סוּ וְדָ֣ם נָקִ֔י אַֽל־תִּשְׁפְּכ֖וּ בַּמָּק֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* thus he.says Yahweh do justice and righteousness and deliver \[one.who.has.been\].robbed from.\[the\] hand of.an.oppressor and sojourner fatherless and widow do.not maltreat do.not treat.violently and blood innocent do.not shed in the place (the) this

*JPS 1917:* Thus saith the LORD: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor; and do no wrong, do no violence, to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6216.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6216/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).