- Original: נגשׂ
- Transliteration: Nagas
- Phonetic: naw-gas'
- Definition:
1. to press, drive, oppress, exact, exert demanding pressure
a. (Qal)
1. to press, drive
2. to exact
3. driver, taskmaster, ruler, oppressor, tyrant, Lord, exactor of tribute (participle)
b. (Niphal) to be hard pressed
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 1296
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: A primitive root; to drive (an animal a workman a debtor an army); by implication to tax harass tyrannize: - distress driver exact (-or) oppress (-or) X raiser of taxes taskmaster.
Total KJV Occurrences: 23
• distressed, 2
1 Samuel 13:6;
1 Samuel 14:24
• driver, 1
Job 39:7
• exact, 3
Deuteronomy 15:2;
Deuteronomy 15:3;
Isaiah 58:3
• exacted, 1
2 Kings 23:35
• exactors, 1
Isaiah 60:17
• oppressed, 2
Isaiah 3:5;
Isaiah 53:7
• oppressor, 5
Job 3:18;
Isaiah 9:4;
Isaiah 14:4;
Zechariah 9:8;
Zechariah 10:4
• oppressors, 2
Isaiah 3:12;
Isaiah 14:2
• taskmasters, 5
Exodus 3:7;
Exodus 5:6;
Exodus 5:10;
Exodus 5:13;
Exodus 5:14
• taxes, 1
Daniel 11:20