Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H6231: עָשַׁק (ʻâshaq) Definition

Strong's number
H6231
Lemma
עָשַׁק
Transliteration
ʻâshaq
Pronunciation
aw-shak'
Strong's definition
to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow get deceitfully, deceive, defraud, drink up, (use) oppress(-ion), -or), do violence (wrong). a primitive root (compare H6229 (עָשַׂק));

35 instances of the word עָשַׁק ʻâshaq (H6231)


  • Leviticus 6:4 - Then it shall be because he hath sinned and is guilty that he shall restore which he took violently away which he took violently away or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten or that which was delivered or that which was delivered or the lost thing which he found

  • Leviticus 19:13 - Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour neither rob shall not abide him the wages of him that is hired with thee all night until the morning

  • Malachi 3:5 - And I will come near to you to judgment witness and I will be a swift against the sorcerers and against the adulterers swearers and against false and against those that oppress in his wages the hireling the widow and the fatherless and that turn aside the stranger from his right and fear not me saith the LORD of hosts

  • Micah 2:2 - And they covet fields and take them by violence and his house and take them away so they oppress a man and his house even a man and his heritage

  • Proverbs 14:31 - He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker but he that honoureth 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 - man A poor that oppresseth the poor rain is like a sweeping which leaveth no food

  • Proverbs 28:17 - A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person to the pit shall flee let no man stay

  • Psalms 72:4 - He shall judge the poor of the people he shall save the children of the needy and shall break in pieces the oppressor

  • Psalms 103:6 - executeth righteousness The LORD and judgment for all that are oppressed

  • Psalms 105:14 - He suffered no man to do them wrong yea he reproved kings

  • Psalms 119:121 - AIN I have done judgment and justice leave me not to mine oppressors

  • Psalms 119:122 - Be surety for thy servant for good oppress let not the proud

  • Psalms 146:7 - Which executeth judgment for the oppressed which giveth food to the hungry The LORD looseth the prisoners

  • Zechariah 7:10 - not the widow nor the fatherless the stranger nor the poor And oppress evil against his brother and let none of you imagine in your heart