KJV dictionary & concordance
Persons who burden or treat others with unjust severity, force, or cruelty.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Job 27:13
Complete exact-word concordance
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressours which they shall receiue of the Almightie.
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
For strangers are risen vp against me, and oppressors seeke after my soule; they haue not set God before them. Selah.
I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
¶ I Haue done Iudgement and iustice: leaue mee not to mine oppressours.
SO I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
¶ So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done vnder the sunne; & behold the teares of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter: and on the side of their oppressours there was power, but they had no comforter.
1611 marginal noteHeb. hand.
1611 marginal noteChap.5.7. &c.
¶ As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
¶ As for my people, children are their oppressours, and women rule ouer them: O my people, they which lead thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy paths.
1611 marginal noteOr, they which call thee blessed.
1611 marginal noteHebr. swallow vp.
And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possesse them in the land of the LORD, for seruants and handmaides: and they shall take them captiues, whose captiues they were, and they shall rule ouer their oppressours.
1611 marginal noteHebr. that had taken them captiues.
Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Let mine outcasts dwel with thee, Moab, be thou a couert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressours are consumed out of the land.
1611 marginal noteHeb. wringer.
1611 marginal noteHebr. the treaders downe.
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
And it shall be for a signe, and for a witnesse vnto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall crie vnto the LORD, because of the oppressours, and he shal send them a Sauiour and a great One, and he shall deliuer them.
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