נָגַשׂ
nâgas · naw-gas'
to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by implication, to tax, harass, tyrannize
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by implication, to tax, harass, tyrannize
- to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army)
- by implication, to tax, harass, tyrannize
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: distress, driver, exact(-or), oppress(-or), [idiom] raiser of taxes, taskmaster.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › to carry, to lift up › to consume, to destroy
The seed, life continuing that works to carry, to lift up that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נָגַשׂ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
23 occurrences · 23 OT · 0 NT · 21 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and the taskmasters2 · 9%
- were distressed2 · 9%
- of their taskmasters1 · 4%
- the taskmasters1 · 4%
- taskmasters1 · 4%
- it; he shall not exact1 · 4%
- thou mayest exact1 · 4%
- he exacted1 · 4%
- of the oppressor1 · 4%
- of the driver1 · 4%
- shall be oppressed1 · 4%
- are their oppressors1 · 4%
- of his oppressor1 · 4%
- over their oppressors1 · 4%
- how hath the oppressor1 · 4%
- he was oppressed1 · 4%
- and exact1 · 4%
- and thine exactors1 · 4%
- of taxes1 · 4%
- and no oppressor1 · 4%
- out of him every oppressor1 · 4%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.