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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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5065 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by implication, to tax, harass, tyrannize
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- distress, driver, exact(-or), oppress(-or), [idiom] raiser of taxes, taskmaster.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- נִגַּ֣שׂ — verb Niphal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 23 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 3:7Exodus 5:6Exodus 5:10Exodus 5:13Exodus 5:14
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נָגַשׂ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.