לָחַץ
la.chats
“to oppress”
Definition
properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to distress
a primitive root;
- to squeeze, press, oppress 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to squeeze, press 1a2) to oppress 1b) (Niphal) to squeeze oneself
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logos (G3056)
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
לָחַץ appears 16 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
and said to the Israelites, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hands of the Egyptians and of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’
Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”
And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.
Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?
I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.
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