Definition

used in plural masculine as abstractly, tyranny

Etymology

or עָשֻׁק; passive participle of H6231 (עָשַׁק);

Where the KJV renders it

• oppressed(-ion). (Doubtful.)

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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