Yânâh — H3238

Definition

verb

to rage or be violent; by implication, to suppress, to maltreat

1. to oppress, suppress, treat violently, maltreat, vex, do wrong
1. (Qal) to oppress, suppress
2. (Hiphil) to treat violently, maltreat

Usually translated as

oppress, oppressing, vex, destroy, oppressor, oppression, proud, do violence

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• hómoios (G3664)
• Ianná (G2388)

Occurrences

Yânâh occurs 19 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Leviticus (3), Deuteronomy (1), Psalms (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (4), Ezekiel (7), Zephaniah (1)

• Exodus 22:21 — Thou shalt neither vex (תוֹנֶ֖ה) a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
• Leviticus 19:33 — And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex (תוֹנ֖וּ) him.
• Leviticus 25:14 — And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress (תּוֹנ֖וּ) one another:
• Leviticus 25:17 — Ye shall not therefore oppress (תוֹנוּ֙) one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
• Deuteronomy 23:16 — He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress (תּוֹנֶֽנּוּ) him.
• Psalms 74:8 — They said in their hearts, Let us destroy (נִינָ֣ם) them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
• Isaiah 49:26 — And I will feed them that oppress (מוֹנַ֙יִךְ֙) thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
• Jeremiah 22:3 — Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong (תֹּנוּ֙), do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
• Jeremiah 25:38 — He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor (הַיּוֹנָ֔ה), and because of his fierce anger.
• Jeremiah 46:16 — He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing (הַיּוֹנָֽה) sword.
• Jeremiah 50:16 — Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing (הַיּוֹנָ֔ה) sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
• Ezekiel 18:7 — And hath not oppressed (יוֹנֶ֔ה) any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
• Ezekiel 18:12 — Hath oppressed (הוֹנָ֔ה) the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
• Ezekiel 18:16 — Neither hath oppressed (הוֹנָ֔ה) any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
• Ezekiel 22:7 — In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed (ה֥וֹנוּ) the fatherless and the widow.
• Ezekiel 22:29 — The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed (הוֹנ֔וּ) the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
• Ezekiel 45:8 — In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress (יוֹנ֨וּ) my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
• Ezekiel 46:18 — Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out (לְהֽוֹנֹתָם֙) of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
• Zephaniah 3:1 — Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing (הַיּוֹנָֽה) city!