Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
oppression
Usage: oppression, abuse, distress
Oshqah means “oppressed” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6234 עָשׁקָה (`oshqah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `oshqah (osh-kaw') n-f. 1. anguish [feminine of H6233] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include oppressed. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`oshqah (osh-kaw') n-f. 1. anguish [feminine of H6233] KJV: oppressed. Root(s): H6233
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6234. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
oppression
Usage: oppression, abuse, distress
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `oshqah, 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.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H6234.
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6234, grouped by book.
Oshqah (Strong's H6234) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "oppressed". `oshqah (osh-kaw') n-f. 1. anguish [feminine of H6233]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H6234 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6234 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as oppressed. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.