Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to oppress
Usage: 1) to squeeze, press, oppress 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to squeeze, press 1a2) to oppress 1b) (Niphal) to squeeze oneself
Lachats means “afflict” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3905 — parateino (“continue”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3905 לָחַץ (lachats) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. lachats (law-khats') v. 1. (properly) to press, i.e. (figuratively) to distress [a primitive root] It has 18 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include oppress, crushed, hold, and afflict. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
lachats (law-khats') v. 1. (properly) to press, i.e. (figuratively) to distress [a primitive root] KJV: afflict, crush, force, hold fast, oppress(-or), thrust self.
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to oppress
Usage: 1) to squeeze, press, oppress 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to squeeze, press 1a2) to oppress 1b) (Niphal) to squeeze oneself
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render lachats, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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18 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3905.
Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land;
The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:
But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.
But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3905, grouped by book.
Lachats (Strong's H3905) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "afflict". lachats (law-khats') v. 1. (properly) to press, i.e. (figuratively) to distress [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H3905 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3905 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as oppress, crushed, hold, and afflict. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.