KJV dictionary & concordance
To burden, crush, or treat with unjust severity or hardship.
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First occurrence: Exodus 3:9
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Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
Now therefore behold, the crie of the children of Israel is come vnto me: and I haue also seene the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppresse them.
¶ Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
¶ Thou shalt neither vexe a stranger, nor oppresse him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
1611 marginal noteLeuit. 19.33.
¶ Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
¶ Also thou shalt not oppresse a stranger: for yee know the heart of a stranger, seeing yee were strangers in the land of Egypt.
1611 marginal noteHeb. soule.
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
And if thou sell ought vnto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbours hand, ye shall not oppresse one another.
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.
Yee shall not therefore oppresse one another; but thou shalt feare thy God: For I am the LORD your God.
He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
He shall dwell with thee, euen among you, in that place which he shall choose, in one of thy gates where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppresse him.
1611 marginal noteHebr. is good for him.
¶ Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
¶ Thou shalt not oppresse an hired seruant that is poore and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy lande within thy gates.
The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
The Zidonians also and the Amalekites, and the Maonites did oppresse you, and ye cried to me, and I deliuered you out of their hand.
Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Is it good vnto thee, that thou shouldest oppresse? that thou shouldest despise the worke of thine hands? and shine vpon the counsell of the wicked?
1611 marginal noteHeb. the labour of thine hands.
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
To iudge the fatherlesse and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppresse.
1611 marginal noteOr, terrifie.
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