KJV dictionary & concordance
Oppressive or coercive taking for gain.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Ezekiel 22:12
Complete exact-word concordance
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
In thee haue they taken gifts to shead blood: thou hast taken vsury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the LORD God.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for yee make cleane the outside of the cup, and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excesse.
1611 marginal noteLuk 11.39.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Force or illegal compulsion by which any thing is taken from a person.
