STRONGS NUMBER H6233


Word Summary
osheq: oppression, extortion
Original Word: עשֶׁק
Transliteration: osheq
Phonetic Spelling: (o'-shek)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: oppression, extortion
Meaning: injury, fraud, distress, unjust gain
Strong's Concordance
cruelly, extortion, oppression, thing deceitfully gotten

From ashaq; injury, fraud, (subjectively) distress, (concretely) unjust gain -- cruelly, extortion, oppression, thing (deceitfully gotten).

see HEBREW ashaq

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6233. osheq

ע֫שֶׁקnoun masculineEcclesiastes 7:7 oppression, extortion; — ׳ע‎ absolute Jeremiah 6:6 +, construct Psalm 119:134; Ecclesiastes 5:7; —

1 Jeremiah 6:6; 22:17; Ezekiel 22:7, 12; Psalm 73:8; with Genitive subject 119:134, object Ecclesiastes 5:7; as accusative of congnate meaning with verb with עָשַׁק‎ (q. v.) Ezekiel 18:18; 22:29.

2 national oppression, Isaiah 54:14.

3 concrete, gain of extortion. Psalm 62:11, so perhaps Ecclesiastes 7:7; as accusative of congnate meaning with verb Leviticus 5:23 ("" גָּזֵל‎). — Isaiah 30:12; 59:13 read עִקֵּשׁ‎ Lag Gr and others