STRONGS NUMBER H3906


Word Summary
lachats: oppression, distress
Original Word: לַחַץ
Transliteration: lachats
Phonetic Spelling: (lakh'-ats)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: oppression, distress
Meaning: oppression, distress
Strong's Concordance
affliction, oppression

From lachats; distress -- affliction, oppression.

see HEBREW lachats

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3906. lachats

לַ֫חַץnoun masculine oppression, distress; — ׳ל‎ absolute 1 Kings 22:27 (twice in verse) + 5 t.; construct 2 Kings 13:4 2t.; suffix לַחֲצֵ֫נוּDeuteronomy 26:4; Psalm 44:25; — oppression of Israel Exodus 3:9 (E; + verb cognate), 2 Kings 13:4 compare Deuteronomy 26:7 ("" עָמָל עֳנִי,‎) Psalm 44:25 ("" עֳנִי‎); oppression of (i.e. by) an enemy, 42:10; 43:2; in General Job 36:15 ׅ‎ "" עֳנִי‎; ל ׳לֶחֶם ל ׳וּמַיִם1 Kings 22:27 2 Chronicles 18:26 bread of oppression and water of oppression, i.e. prison-fare (> Klo scanty fare); compare ל וּמַיִם צַר ׳לֶחֶםIsaiah 30:20, apparently of privations of a siege (compare Che Di Du; on the apposition in these passages see Ges§ 131. 2 (b) Köiii, § 333 p.q. DaSynt. § 29. e).