- Original: עשׁק - Transliteration: `ashaq - Phonetic: aw-shak' - Definition: 1. to press upon, oppress, violate, defraud, do violence, get deceitfully, wrong, extort a. (Qal) 1. to oppress, wrong, extort 2. to oppress b. (Pual) to be exploited, be crushed - Origin: a primitive root (comp. H6229 ) - TWOT entry: 1713 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root (compare H6229 ); to press upon that is oopress defraud violate overflow: - get deceitfully deceive defraud drink up (use) oppress ([-ion] -or) do violence (wrong). Total KJV Occurrences: 36 • deceived, 1 Leviticus 6:2 • defraud, 1 Leviticus 19:13 • defrauded, 2 1 Samuel 12:3; 1 Samuel 12:4 • gotten, 1 Leviticus 6:4 • oppress, 9 Deuteronomy 24:14; Job 10:3; Psalm 119:122; Jeremiah 7:6; Hosea 12:7; Amos 4:1; Micah 2:2; Zechariah 7:10; Malachi 3:5 • oppressed, 10 Deuteronomy 28:29; Deuteronomy 28:33; Psalm 103:6; Psalm 146:7; Isaiah 23:12; Isaiah 52:4; Jeremiah 50:33; Ezekiel 18:18; Ezekiel 22:29; Hosea 5:11 • oppresseth, 3 Proverbs 14:31; Proverbs 22:16; Proverbs 28:3 • oppressor, 2 Psalm 72:4; Jeremiah 21:12 • oppressors, 2 Psalm 119:121; Ecclesiastes 4:1 • up, 1 Job 40:23 • used, 1 Ezekiel 22:29 • violence, 1 Proverbs 28:17 • wrong, 2 1 Chronicles 16:21; Psalm 105:14