H3905 לָחַץ
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 19 KJV occurrences
לָחַץ
lâchats · law-khats'
Definition
properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to distress
KJV Renderings
afflict, crush, force, hold fast, oppress(-or), thrust self.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 19)
- Exodus 3:9Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
- Exodus 23:9¶ Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 22:25And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
- Judges 4:3And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
- Judges 10:12The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
- 2 Kings 6:32But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?
- Psalms 56:1Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
- Isaiah 19:20And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.