yana · mistreat, oppress

What it means

yana (יָנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mistreat, oppress”.

Take advantage of someone weaker.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To take advantage of one who cannot defend himself and harm him or take what is his.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• mistreat ×4
• oppressor ×3
• does not oppress ×2
• oppressing ×2
• take advantage of ×2
• they have oppressed ×2
• oppress ×1
• oppresses ×1
• oppressors ×1
• wrong ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×7
• Zephaniah×1

• Exodus 22:21

  You shall not mistreat a resident alien or oppress him, for you were resident aliens in the land of Egypt.

• Leviticus 19:33

  And when a resident alien resides with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him.

• Leviticus 25:14

  And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from the hand of your neighbor, you shall not take advantage of one another.

• Leviticus 25:17

  And you shall not take advantage of one another, but you shall fear your Elohim; for I am YHWH your Elohim.

• Deuteronomy 23:16

  With you he shall live, in your midst, in the place that he chooses in one of your gates, where it is good for him; you shall not mistreat him.

• Psalms 74:8

  They said in their heart, “Let us mistreat them all together.” They burned all the meeting places of El in the land.

• Isaiah 49:26

  And I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and as with sweet wine with their blood they will be drunk; and all flesh will know that I, YHWH, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

• Jeremiah 22:3

  Thus says YHWH: Do justice and righteousness, and rescue the one who is robbed from the hand of the oppressor; and the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow do not wrong, do not treat with violence; and innocent blood do not shed in this place.

• Jeremiah 25:38

  Like a young lion he has left his lair; for their land has become a horror before the burning of the oppressor, and before his burning anger.

• Jeremiah 46:16

  He made many stumble; indeed, each one fell against his neighbor, and they said, “Get up, and let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, from before the sword of the oppressor.”

• Jeremiah 50:16

  Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who handles the sickle in the time of harvest; from before the sword of the oppressor each one to his people they will turn, and each one to his land they will flee.

• Ezekiel 18:7

  and does not oppress anyone, restores his pledge for a debt, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with clothing;

• Ezekiel 18:12

  oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robberies, does not restore the pledge, and lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,

• Ezekiel 18:16

  and does not oppress anyone, does not take a pledge, and commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with clothing;

• Ezekiel 22:7

  Father and mother they have despised in you; toward the resident alien they have acted with exploitation in your midst; the orphan and the widow they have oppressed in you.

• Ezekiel 22:29

  The people of the land have practiced exploitation and committed robbery, and the poor and the needy they have oppressed, and the resident alien they have exploited without justice.

• Ezekiel 45:8

  As land it shall be his as a possession in Israel; and my chiefs shall not oppress my people any longer, but the land they shall give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

• Ezekiel 46:18

  And the chief shall not take from the inheritance of the people, oppressing them out of their possession; from his own possession he shall give inheritance to his sons, so that my people shall not be scattered, each from his possession.”

• Zephaniah 3:1

  Woe to the rebellious and defiled one, the oppressing city!