H5065

נגש

נגש

nagash

Verb · A primitive root

A primitive root; to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by implication, to tax, harass, tyrannize:—distress, driver, exact(-or), oppress(-or), × raiser of taxes, taskmaster.

Outline

to press, drive, oppress, exact, exert demanding pressure

(Qal)

to press, drive
to exact
driver, taskmaster, ruler, oppressor, tyrant, lord, exactor of tribute (participle)

(Niphal) to be hard pressed

Usages

Exodus 3:7

¶ And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

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Exodus 5:6

And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

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Exodus 5:10

¶ And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

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Exodus 5:13

And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

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Exodus 5:14

And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?

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Deuteronomy 15:2

And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’s release.

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Deuteronomy 15:3

Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

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1 Samuel 13:6

When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

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1 Samuel 14:24

¶ And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.

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Job 3:18

There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

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Job 39:7

He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

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Isaiah 3:5

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

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Isaiah 3:12

¶ As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

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children are their oppressors Israel is the firstborn of the Most High (Exodus 4:22), therefore all of the other nations are 'younger' than Israel. oppressors Psalms 83. women rule over them literal

The False Leaders of Israel

Isaiah 9:16 Jeremiah 5:26-29 Jeremiah 10:21 Jeremiah 12:10 Jeremiah 14:13-16 Jeremiah 23:2 Jeremiah 50:6 Lamentations 2:14 Ezekiel 13:2-9 Ezekiel 33:6 Ezekiel 34:7-10 Micah 3:1-4 Micah 3:11 Zechariah 11:16 Malachi 1:6 Acts 20:30 1 Corinthians 14:8 2 Peter 2:1

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Isaiah 9:4

For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

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Isaiah 14:2

And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

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And the people The Israelites. shall take them The other nations. The Israelites will put the heathens into hardcore slavery for 1,000 years (Revelation 20:5) because of all of the evil they have done to the Israelites. At the end of this period, the heathens will be in tribute to the Israelites, but the Edomites will be completely destroyed (Obadiah 1:18).

Genesis 9:6 Exodus 21:16 Numbers 35:33 Psalms 137:8-9 Psalms 149:7 Isaiah 14:21 Isaiah 33:1 Jeremiah 30:16 Jeremiah 49:12 Ezekiel 35:5-9 Ezekiel 35:15 Joel 3:7 2 Esdras 15:56-57 Colossians 3:25 2 Thessalonians 1:6 Revelation 13:10 Revelation 18:6

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Isaiah 14:4

¶ That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

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golden city Babylon, i.e. America.

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Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

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Isaiah 58:3

¶ Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

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Isaiah 60:17

For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.

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Daniel 11:20

Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

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Zechariah 9:8

And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.

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Zechariah 10:4

Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.

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