Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6217
עָשׁוּק
ashuqaw-shook'
oppression
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâshûwq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6217is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6217
used in plural masculine as abstractly, tyranny
The King James renders it: oppressed(-ion). (Doubtful.)
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
ashuq is rendered "oppression". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 35:9Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
Job 35:9עֲשׁוּקִ֣ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and oppressions1
- oppressions1
- the oppressed1
- the oppressions1
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- הָ֣עֲשֻׁקִ֔ים1
- הָעֲשֻׁקִ֗ים1
- וַעֲשׁוּקִ֖ים1
- עֲשׁוּקִ֣ים1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural1HTd/Vqsmpa
Job
one use
Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
- עֲשׁוּקִ֣יםʾashukimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: oppressions
Ecclesiastes
two uses
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
- הָ֣עֲשֻׁקִ֔יםhaashukimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the oppressions
- הָעֲשֻׁקִ֗יםhaashukimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: the oppressed
Amos
one use
Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.”
- וַעֲשׁוּקִ֖יםvaashukimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and oppressions
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 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.