H3238 יָנָה
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 21 KJV occurrences
יָנָה
yânâh · yaw-naw'
Definition
to rage or be violent; by implication, to suppress, to maltreat
KJV Renderings
destroy, (thrust out by) oppress(-ing, -ion, -or), proud, vex, do violence.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 21)
- Exodus 22:21¶ Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- Leviticus 25:14And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
- Psalms 74:8They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
- Isaiah 49:26And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
- Jeremiah 46:16He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
- Ezekiel 18:12Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
- Ezekiel 22:7In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
- Ezekiel 46:18Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.