Limitless Word
יָנָהyânâh/yaw-naw'/
HebrewH323821 occurrences (KJV)

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

KJV renders it: destroy, (thrust out by) oppress(-ing, -ion, -or), proud, vex, do violence.

Where it appears(showing the first 20 of 21)

  • Exod 22:21“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
  • Lev 19:33“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
  • Lev 25:14“‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
  • Lev 25:17You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.
  • Deut 23:16He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.
  • Ps 74:8They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
  • Ps 123:4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
  • Isa 49:26I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
  • Jer 22:3Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
  • Jer 25:38He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression, and because of his fierce anger.
  • Jer 46:16He made many to stumble, yes, they fell on one another: and they said, ‘Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.’
  • Jer 50:16Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the oppressing sword, they will each return to their own people, and they will each flee to their own land.
  • Ezek 18:7and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
  • Ezek 18:12has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
  • Ezek 18:16neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
  • Ezek 22:7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  • Ezek 22:29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
  • Ezek 45:8In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
  • Ezek 46:18Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not be scattered every man from his possession.
  • Zeph 3:1Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.