יָנָה
yânâh · H3238 · Hebrew · 19 occurrences
Meanings
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to oppress
Causative action by which humans cause hardship to other humans
ExamplesLeviticus 19:33 ‘When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
Leviticus 25:14 ‘Furthermore, if you make a sale to your friend, or buy from your friend’s hand, you shall not wrong one another.
Leviticus 25:17 ‘So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
14 occurrences in 7 groups
- Not stated: you (more than one) 4
- Not stated: he, she or it 3
- Not stated: you (one person) 2
- Not stated: they 2
- נָשִׂיאchief 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
14 occurrences in 11 groups
- Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (17) 17
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom+ אֲחֻזָּהpossession, property 1
- בin/on/with+ ךְyou 1
With adverbsAdverbs
10 occurrences in 4 groups
- לֹאnot 7
- אַלnot, do not 2
- יַחַדtogether 1
- עוֹדstill, again, yet 1
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךְyou 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- חֶרֶבsword 2
- חָרוֹןburning anger, fierce anger 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
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- יָנָה means to oppress, maltreat, or do violence to someone, forbidding Israel from wronging a resident foreigner (Leviticus 19:33) or defrauding one another in a sale (Leviticus 25:14, 17).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3238. yanah [יָנָה] verb suppress (?),oppress, maltreat (Late Hebrew Hiph`il vex with…
[יָנָה] verb suppress (?),oppress, maltreat (Late Hebrew Hiph`il vex with words; so Aramaic Aph`el אוֺנִי, but also ᵑ7 for Hebrew הוֺנָה maltreat; Arabic is laxus, debilis fuit, IV. debilitavit, defatigavit, but connection dubious) —
Qal Imperfect1plural suffix נִינָם Psa 74:8; Participle יוֺנָה Jer 25:38 Jer 25:3t. + Psa 123:4 (see below); — suppress (?) followed by accusative Psa 74:8 (text dubious); elsewhere oppress; Participle absolute as adjective הַיּוֺנָה הָעִיר Zep 3:1; substantive f. collective הַיּוֺנָה oppressors Jer 25:38 (but read חֶרֶב for חֲרוֺן, with ᵐ5 Ew Hi Gf Ke etc., as Jer 46:16; Jer 50:16); Psa 123:4 Qr יוֺנִים לִגְאֵי proudest oppressors (stative construct in superlative, compare Ges§ 133, 3, R. 1; yet most follow Kt לּגּאייונים, and derived from גַּאֲיוֺן q. v. above)
Hiph`il Perfect הוֺנָה Eze 18:12, Eze 18:16; הוֺנוּ Eze 22:7, Eze 22:29; Imperfect יוֺנֶה Eze 18:7; Eze 18:2masculine singular תּיֹנֶה Exo 22:20; תּוֺנֶנּוּ Deu 23:17; יוֺנוּ Eze 45:8; תּוֺנוּ Lev 19:33 Lev 19:2t.; תֹּנוּ Jer 22:3; Infinitive suffix הוֺנֹתָם Eze 46:18; Participle מוֺנַ֫יִךְ Isa 49:26; — oppress, maltreat, followed by accusative, especially of ill-treatment of poor and weak, particular of the גֵּר, the 'stranger,' sojourner, by the rich and powerful, Exo 22:20 (JE), Lev 19:33; Lev 25:14, Lev 25:17 (H), Deu 23:17; Jer 22:3; Eze 18:7, Eze 18:12, Eze 18:16; Eze 22:7, Eze 22:29; Eze 45:8; Eze 46:18; of a foreign oppressor only Isa 49:26.
יָנוֺחַ see נוח; יָנוּם see נום.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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