STRONGS NUMBER H6217


Word Summary
ashuqim: oppression, extortion
Original Word: עָשׁוּק
Transliteration: ashuqim
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-shook')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: oppression, extortion
Meaning: oppression, extortion
Strong's Concordance
oppressedion

Or mashuq {aw-shook'}; passive participle of ashaq; used in plural masculine as abstractly, tyranny -- oppressed(-ion). (Doubtful.)

see HEBREW ashaq

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6217. ashuqim

עֲשׁוּקִיםnoun plural abstract oppression, extortion; — ׳עAmos 3:9; Job 35:9, עֲשֻׁקִיםEcclesiastes 4:1.