Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3906
לַחַץ
lachatslakh'-ats
oppression
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3906is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3906
distress
The King James renders it: affliction, oppression.
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
lachats is rendered "oppression". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 3:9And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.
Exodus 3:9הַלַּ֔חַץ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's twelve uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- oppression5
- in oppression of2
- and oppression our1
- by the oppression1
- oppression of1
- oppression our1
- the oppression1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| לַחַשׁ | lachash | charm | Uses5 |
The words it stands beside
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- בְּלַ֣חַץ2
- לַ֙חַץ֙2
- לַ֔חַץ2
- בַּלַּ֣חַץ1
- הַלַּ֔חַץ1
- וְֽלַחֲצֵֽנוּ׃1
- לַ֣חַץ1
- לָ֑חַץ1
- לַחֲצֵֽנוּ׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HC/Ncmsc/Sp1bp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HNcmsc/Sp1bp
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Exodus
one use
And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.
- הַלַּ֔חַץhalachatzthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the oppression
Deuteronomy
one use
So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression.
- לַחֲצֵֽנוּ׃lachatzenunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: oppression our
1 Kings
two uses
and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
- לַ֙חַץ֙lachatznoun · masculine singulartagged: oppression
- לַ֔חַץlachatznoun · masculine singulartagged: oppression
2 Kings
one use
Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him because He saw the oppression that the king of Aram had inflicted on Israel.
- לַ֣חַץlachatznoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: oppression of
2 Chronicles
two uses
and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
- לַ֙חַץ֙lachatznoun · masculine singulartagged: oppression
- לַ֔חַץlachatznoun · masculine singulartagged: oppression
Job
one use
God rescues the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ears in oppression.
- בַּלַּ֣חַץbalachatzpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the oppression
Psalms
three uses
I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
- בְּלַ֣חַץbelachatzpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in oppression of
For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
- בְּלַ֣חַץbelachatzpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in oppression of
Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
- וְֽלַחֲצֵֽנוּ׃velachatzenuconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and oppression our
Isaiah
one use
The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
- לָ֑חַץlachatznoun · masculine singulartagged: oppression
The letters
Gematria 128· 938 mispar gadol
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.