Hebrew verb · H3238
יָנָה
yanahyaw-naw'
to oppress
20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yânâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3238is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3238
to rage or be violent; by implication, to suppress, to maltreat
The King James renders it: destroy, (thrust out by) oppress(-ing, -ion, -or), proud, vex, do violence.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
yanah is rendered "to oppress". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 22:21You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 22:21תוֹנֶ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's twenty uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the oppressor3
- he has oppressed2
- they have maltreated2
- you maltreat2
- you will maltreat2
- he oppressed1
- let us oppress them1
- maltreat you1
- of arrogant opressors1
- they will oppress1
- to oppress them1
- which oppresses1
and 2 more, 20 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 20, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הוֹנָ֔ה2
- הַיּוֹנָ֔ה2
- הַיּוֹנָֽה׃2
- ה֥וֹנוּ1
- הוֹנ֔וּ1
- יוֹנֶ֔ה1
- יוֹנ֨וּ1
- לִגְאֵי יוֹנִים׃1
- לְהֽוֹנֹתָם֙1
- מוֹנַ֙יִךְ֙1
- נִינָ֣ם1
- תוֹנֶ֖ה1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular4HTd/Vqrfsa
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural4HVhi2mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVhp3cp
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVhp3ms
- HR/Aampc//Vqrmpa1HR/Aampc//Vqrmpa
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Vhcc/Sp3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhi2ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhi2ms/Sp3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVhi3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhi3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HVhrmpc/Sp2fs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi1cp/Sp3mp
Exodus
one use
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- תוֹנֶ֖הtonehverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you must maltreat
Leviticus
three uses
When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
- תוֹנ֖וּtonuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will maltreat
If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.
- תּוֹנ֖וּtonuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you maltreat
Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
- תוֹנוּ֙tonuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will maltreat
Deuteronomy
one use
Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
- תּוֹנֶֽנּוּ׃ סtonenuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you will maltreat him
Psalms
two uses
They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
- נִינָ֣םninamverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: let us oppress them
We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
- לִגְאֵי יוֹנִים׃lige yonimHR/Aampc//Vqrmpatagged: of arrogant opressors
Isaiah
one use
I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
- מוֹנַ֙יִךְ֙monayikhverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: maltreat you
Jeremiah
four uses
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
- תֹּנוּ֙tonuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you maltreat
He has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
- הַיּוֹנָ֔הhaiyonahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: the oppressor
They continue to stumble; indeed, they have fallen over one another. They say, ‘Get up! Let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.’
- הַיּוֹנָֽה׃haiyonahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: the oppressor
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.
- הַיּוֹנָ֔הhaiyonahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: the oppressor
Ezekiel
seven uses
He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
- יוֹנֶ֔הyonehverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he oppressed
He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.
- הוֹנָ֔הhonahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has oppressed
He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
- הוֹנָ֔הhonahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has oppressed
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
- ה֥וֹנוּhonuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have maltreated
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
- הוֹנ֔וּhonuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have maltreated
This land will be his possession in Israel. And My princes will no longer oppress My people, but will give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
- יוֹנ֨וּyonuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will oppress
The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”
- לְהֽוֹנֹתָם֙lehonotampreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to oppress them
Zephaniah
one use
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
- הַיּוֹנָֽה׃haiyonahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: which oppresses
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
