Words the Bible translates as oppressed
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- nagasנָגַשׂto drive or press someone into compliance: to bear down on people (or animals) with forced labor, debt, tribute, or sheer domination.
- dakahדָּכָאto crush: to pound or grind something to pieces, and so to break a person down, whether by brute force, by unjust oppression, or in the humbling of the spirit
- yatsarיָצַרto be too tight: of a space, too small for what must fit in it; of a person, squeezed into a corner and so hard pressed
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