KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of oppress, meaning to burden, crush, or treat with unjust severity or hardship.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Deuteronomy 28:29
Complete exact-word concordance
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Because hee hath oppressed, and hath forsaken the poore; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not:
1611 marginal noteHebr. crushed.
1611 marginal noteEccles. 5.12.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to crie: they crie out by reason of the arme of the mightie.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Grieued, or violently wronged.
