Ashaq means “defraud” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6231 עָשַׁק (`ashaq) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `ashaq (aw-shak') v. 1. to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow [a primitive root] It has 35 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include oppress, defrauded, deceitfully, defraud, and upon. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`ashaq (aw-shak') v. 1. to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow [a primitive root] KJV: get deceitfully, deceive, defraud, drink up, (use) oppress((-ion)), -or), do violence (wrong). Compare: H6229
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to oppress
Usage: 1) to press upon, oppress, violate, defraud, do violence, get deceitfully, wrong, extort 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to oppress, wrong, extort 1a2) to oppress 1b) (Pual) to be exploited, be crushed
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `ashaq, 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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35 indexed usages in Old Testament.
If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
First 35 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6231.
If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,
Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
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.
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Ashaq (Strong's H6231) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "defraud". `ashaq (aw-shak') v. 1. to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 35 linked usages for Strong's H6231 across 16 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6231 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as oppress, defrauded, deceitfully, defraud, upon, and drinketh. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.