oshek · oppression, extortion

What it means

oshek (עֹשֶׁק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “oppression, extortion”.

Oppression; what is gained by taking advantage of another.

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. Taking advantage of the weak, or what is gained so.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• oppression ×8
• exploitation ×5
• extortion ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Psalms×3
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×4

• 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,

• Psalms 62:10

  Do not trust in extortion, and in robbery do not become vain; if wealth increases, do not set your heart on it.

• Psalms 73:8

  They mock and speak with malice; of extortion from on high they speak.

• Psalms 119:134

  Ransom me from the oppression of human beings, and I will keep your precepts.

• Ecclesiastes 5:8

  If you see the oppression of the poor and the robbing of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be amazed at the matter, for a high one watches over a high one, and higher ones over them.

• Ecclesiastes 7:7

  For oppression makes a wise man mad, and a gift destroys the heart.

• Isaiah 30:12

  Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: “Because you reject this word and trust in oppression and crookedness and lean on it,

• Isaiah 54:14

  In righteousness you will be established; be far from oppression, for you will not fear, and from terror, for it will not come near to you.

• Isaiah 59:13

  transgressing and denying YHWH, and turning away from following our Elohim, speaking oppression and rebellion, conceiving and muttering from the heart words of falsehood.

• Jeremiah 6:6

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot: “Cut down trees, and pour out against Jerusalem a siege ramp. This is the city to be punished; all of it is oppression in her midst.

• Jeremiah 22:17

  But your eyes and your heart are on nothing except your unjust gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and extortion, to do them.

• 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 22:7

  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 22:12

  Bribes they have taken in you to shed blood; interest and profit you have taken, and you have despoiled your neighbors with exploitation, and me you have forgotten, declares Adonai YHWH.

• 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.