ashak · oppress, defraud

What it means

ashak (עָשַׁק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “oppress, defraud”.

Take advantage of someone by taking what is his; crush.

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 the weak and take their things.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• oppress ×8
• oppressed ×8
• exploit ×4
• Whoever oppresses ×2
• oppresses ×2
• oppressor ×2
• oppressors ×2
• burdened ×1
• exploited us ×1
• has exploited ×1
• others ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×3
• Deuteronomy×3
• 1 Samuel×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×4
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×3
• Hosea×2
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×1

• Leviticus 6:2

  “When a person sins and commits unfaithfulness against YHWH by lying to his neighbor about a deposit or a pledge or a robbery, or has exploited his neighbor,

• Leviticus 6:4

  when he has sinned and is guilty, he shall restore what he robbed or what he gained by exploitation or the deposit that was deposited with him or the lost thing that he found,

• Leviticus 19:13

  You shall not oppress your neighbor and you shall not rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not stay overnight with you until morning.

• Deuteronomy 24:14

  You shall not exploit a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether of your brothers or of your resident aliens who are in your land, within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 28:29

  And you will be groping at noon, as the blind man gropes in the darkness, and you will not prosper your ways; and you will be only oppressed and robbed all the days, and there will be no one to save you.

• Deuteronomy 28:33

  The fruit of your ground and all your labor a people that you have not known will eat; and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the days.

• 1 Samuel 12:3

  Here I am; answer against me before YHWH and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I exploited, whom have I crushed, or from the hand of whom have I taken compensation to cover my eyes with it? And I will return it to you.”

• 1 Samuel 12:4

  They said, “You have not exploited us, and you have not crushed us, and you have not taken anything from the hand of anyone.”

• 1 Chronicles 16:21

  He did not allow anyone to oppress them, and he rebuked kings on their account:

• Job 10:3

  Does it seem good to you that you oppress, that you despise the labor of your palms, and shine forth on the counsel of the wicked?

• Job 40:23

  Look, the river oppresses, and it does not hurry; it is confident though the Jordan bursts out to its mouth.

• Psalms 72:4

  May he judge the afflicted of the people, save the sons of the needy, and crush the oppressor.

• Psalms 103:6

  YHWH works righteous deeds and judgments for all the oppressed.

• Psalms 105:14

  He did not allow anyone to oppress them, and he rebuked kings on their account:

• Psalms 119:121

  I have done justice and righteousness; do not leave me to my oppressors.

• Psalms 119:122

  Be surety for your servant for good; do not let the insolent oppress me.

• Psalms 146:7

  who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives bread to the hungry. YHWH sets free the prisoners;

• Proverbs 14:31

  Whoever oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but whoever shows favor to the needy honors him.

• Proverbs 22:16

  Whoever oppresses the poor to increase what is his, and whoever gives to the rich, comes only to want.

• Proverbs 28:3

  A poor man who oppresses the poor is a rain that sweeps away, and there is no bread.

• Proverbs 28:17

  A man burdened with the blood of a soul will flee to the pit; let no one hold him up.

• Ecclesiastes 4:1

  And I turned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and look, the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and from the hand of their oppressors there is power, and they have no comforter.

• Isaiah 23:12

  And he said, “You will not again exult, oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon! Arise, cross over to Kittim; even there there will be no rest for you.”

• Isaiah 52:4

  For thus says Adonai YHWH: “To Egypt my people went down at the first to reside as aliens there; and Assyria oppressed them without cause.

• Jeremiah 7:6

  if you do not oppress the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and do not walk after other gods to your own harm,

• Jeremiah 21:12

  house of David! Thus says YHWH: Judge justly in the morning, and rescue the one who is robbed from the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire and burn with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

• Jeremiah 50:33

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Oppressed are the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah together; and all who took them captive have held them fast; they have refused to let them go.

• Ezekiel 18:18

  His father, because he practiced exploitation, robbed his brother of what he robbed, and did what is not good among his people, look, he will die for his iniquity.

• 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.

• Hosea 5:11

  Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he was determined to go after the command.

• Hosea 12:7

  A merchant! In his hand are scales of deceit; he loves to oppress.

• Amos 4:1

  Hear this word, cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, “Bring, and let us drink.”

• Micah 2:2

  And they covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them; and they exploit a man and his house, a person and his inheritance.

• Zechariah 7:10

  and the widow and the orphan, the resident alien and the afflicted, do not exploit; and evil against his brother, each one, do not plan in your heart.”

• Malachi 3:5

  And I will draw near to you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who exploit the wages of the hired worker, the widow and the orphan, and against those who turn aside the right of the resident alien, and do not fear me, says YHWH Tsevaot.

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