Definition

to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow

Etymology

a primitive root (compare H6229 (עָשַׂק));

Where the KJV renders it

• get deceitfully
• deceive
• defraud
• drink up
• (use) oppress(-ion)
• -or)
• do violence (wrong)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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