עָשַׁק
ʻâshaq · aw-shak'
to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root (compare H6229 (עָשַׂק));
to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: get deceitfully, deceive, defraud, drink up, (use) oppress(-ion), -or), do violence (wrong).
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- 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
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › to consume, to destroy › what comes behind, the returning cycle
To see and know that works to consume, to destroy of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָשַׁק 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
36 occurrences · 36 OT · 0 NT · 34 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and thou shalt be only oppressed2 · 7%
- to do them wrong2 · 7%
- he that oppresseth2 · 7%
- oppressed2 · 7%
- or hath deceived1 · 3%
- which he hath deceitfully gotten1 · 3%
- thou shalt not defraud1 · 3%
- thou shalt not oppress1 · 3%
- or whom have i defrauded1 · 3%
- thou hast not defrauded1 · 3%
- unto thee that thou shouldest oppress1 · 3%
- behold, he drinketh up1 · 3%
- the oppressor1 · 3%
- for all that are oppressed1 · 3%
- me not to mine oppressors1 · 3%
- oppress1 · 3%
- for the oppressed1 · 3%
- that oppresseth1 · 3%
- that doeth violence1 · 3%
- of such as were oppressed1 · 3%
- of their oppressors1 · 3%
- o thou oppressed1 · 3%
- if ye oppress1 · 3%
- of the oppressor1 · 3%
- were oppressed1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
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.