עֹשֶׁק
ʻôsheq · o'-shek
injury, fraud, (subjectively) distress, (concretely) unjust gain
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6231 (עָשַׁק);
injury, fraud, (subjectively) distress, (concretely) unjust gain
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cruelly, extortion, oppression, thing (deceitfully gotten).
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 עֹשֶׁק 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
15 occurrences · 15 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- or the thing1 · 7%
- not in oppression1 · 7%
- concerning oppression1 · 7%
- me from the oppression1 · 7%
- the oppression1 · 7%
- surely oppression1 · 7%
- in oppression1 · 7%
- from oppression1 · 7%
- oppression1 · 7%
- she is wholly oppression1 · 7%
- and for oppression1 · 7%
- because he cruelly1 · 7%
- by oppression1 · 7%
- by extortion1 · 7%
- have used oppression1 · 7%
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.