KJV dictionary & concordance
To burden, crush, or treat with unjust severity or hardship.
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First occurrence: Exodus 3:9
Complete exact-word concordance
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
And oppresse not the widow, nor the fatherlesse, the stranger, nor the poore, and let none of you imagine euill against his brother in your heart.
1611 marginal noteExod.22.21. isa.1.23. iere.5.28.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
And I will come neere to you to iudgement, and I will bee a swift witnesse against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppresse the hireling in his wages, the widowe, and the fatherlesse, and that turne aside the stranger from his right, and feare not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
1611 marginal noteOr, defraud
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
But yee haue despised the poore. Doe not rich men oppresse you, and draw you before the Iudgement seats?
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