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# עֹשֶׁק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6233

**oppression** — used 15 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

oppression [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6233/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֹ֫שֶׁק: n.m. oppression, extortion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6233/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ec 7:7 oppression, extortion;—ע׳ abs. Je 6:6 +, cstr. ψ 119:134 Ec 5:7;— Je 6:6; 22:17; Ez 22:7, 12 ψ 73:8; c. genit. subj. 119:134, obj. Ec 5:7; as acc. cogn. c. עָשַׁק (q.v.) Ez 18:18; 22:29. national oppression, Is 54:14. concr., gain of extortion ψ 62:11, so perhaps Ec 7:7; as acc. cogn. Lv 5:23 (‖ גָּזֵל).—Is 30:12; 59:13 read עִקֵּשׁ Lag Gr al.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 2 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: oppression (9); extortion (5); \[is\] oppression (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 73:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.8/#tree)

יָמִ֤יקוּ ׀ וִידַבְּר֣וּ בְרָ֣ע עֹ֑שֶׁק מִמָּר֥וֹם יְדַבֵּֽרוּ׃

*Word for word:* they.mock and they.speak with evil oppression from a.high.place they.speak

*JPS 1917:* They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression; they speak as if there were none on high.

[Psalms 119:134](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.134/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.134/#tree)

פְּ֭דֵנִי מֵעֹ֣שֶׁק אָדָ֑ם וְ֝אֶשְׁמְרָ֗ה פִּקּוּדֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* redeem me from oppression of.humankind so that.I.may.keep precepts your

*JPS 1917:* Redeem me from the oppression of man, and I will observe Thy precepts.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6233.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6233/): 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).