# H3905 לָחַץ

לָחַץ (lâchats), Strong’s H3905: properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to distress KJV: afflict, crush, force, hold fast, oppress(-or), thrust self.. Occurs 19 times.

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*lâchats* — properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to distress

KJV: afflict, crush, force, hold fast, oppress(-or), thrust self.

Occurs 19 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- לָחַץ vb. squeeze, press, fig. oppress
- Qal
- 1 squeeze, press
- 2 oppress
- Niph. squeeze oneself

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 3:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/3?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/22?v=20) — “You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
- [Exodus 23:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/22?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/2?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/4?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/6?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/10?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/10?v=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…