KJV dictionary & concordance
Present-participial or verbal-noun form of oppress, meaning to burden, crush, or treat with unjust severity or hardship.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Jeremiah 46:16
Complete exact-word concordance
He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
He made many to fall, yea one fell vpon another, and they said, Arise, and let vs goe againe to our owne people, and to the land of our natiuitie, from the oppressing sword.
1611 marginal noteHebr. multiplied the faller.
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of haruest: for feare of the oppressing sword, they shall turne euery one to his people, and they shall flee euery one to his owne lande.
1611 marginal noteOr, sythe.
WOE to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
¶ Woe to her that is filthie and polluted, to the oppressing citie.
1611 marginal noteOr, gluttenous. Heb. craw.
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