Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to oppress
Usage: 1) to oppress, suppress, treat violently, maltreat, vex, do wrong 1a) (Qal) to oppress, suppress 1b) (Hiphil) to treat violently, maltreat
Yanah means “destroy” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H3238 יָנָה (yanah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. yanah (yaw-naw') v. 1. to rage or be violent 2. (by implication) to suppress, to maltreat It has 19 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include oppress, destroy, out, and thrust. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
yanah (yaw-naw') v. 1. to rage or be violent 2. (by implication) to suppress, to maltreat [a primitive root] KJV: destroy, (thrust out by) oppress(-ing, -ion, -or), proud, vex, do violence.
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to oppress
Usage: 1) to oppress, suppress, treat violently, maltreat, vex, do wrong 1a) (Qal) to oppress, suppress 1b) (Hiphil) to treat violently, maltreat
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render yanah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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19 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3238.
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
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Yanah (Strong's H3238) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "destroy". yanah (yaw-naw') v. 1. to rage or be violent 2. (by implication) to suppress, to maltreat
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H3238 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3238 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as oppress, destroy, out, and thrust. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.