H3905 לָחַץ
lâchats — properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to distress
KJV: afflict, crush, force, hold fast, oppress(-or), thrust self.
Occurs 19 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- לָחַץ vb. squeeze, press, fig. oppress
- Qal
- 1 squeeze, press
- 2 oppress
- Niph. squeeze oneself
Where it occurs
- Exodus 3:9 — Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the…
- Exodus 22:20 — “You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 23:9 — “You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 22:25 — The donkey saw the LORD’s angel, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. He…
- Judges 1:34 — The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;
- Judges 2:18 — When the LORD raised up judges for them, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their…
- Judges 4:3 — The children of Israel cried to the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the…
- Judges 6:9 — I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from…
- Judges 10:12 — The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of…
- 1 Samuel 10:18 — and he said to the children of Israel, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt and I…