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לָחַץ

lâchats · H3905 · Hebrew · 19 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Action by which someone presses one object against another object (to press, to hold (something) against (someone))

    Examples

    Numbers 22:25 When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pressed herself against the wall and pressed Balaam’s foot against the wall, so he struck her again.

    2 Kings 6:32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man from his presence; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent a man to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door shut against him. Is the sound of his master’s feet not behind him?”

  2. to press back, to drive back

    To force a large group of people back from their place of habitation into a smaller area

    Examples

    Judges 1:34 Then the Amorites forced the sons of Dan into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the valley;

  3. to oppress, to afflict, oppression, affliction

    Causative action by which humans cause hardship to other humans

    Examples

    Exodus 3:9 “And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.

    Exodus 22:21 “You shall not oppress a stranger nor torment him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

    Exodus 23:9 “You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

How it’s used In 7 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

15 occurrences in 15 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

14 occurrences in 8 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 3 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 1 groups

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

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 3 entries
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לָחַץ can describe a physical pressing or squeezing force, as in Numbers 22:25's donkey that "pressed herself against the wall" and crushed Balaam's foot, tying the word to forceful physical contact.
Move002002001012
The same physical-pressing sense involves one body forcing against or displacing another, as in the donkey pressing itself against the wall in Numbers 22:25, linking the verb to forced movement or displacement.
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The word's dominant sense is to oppress or afflict, as in Exodus 3:9's "the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them" and Exodus 23:9's prohibition against oppressing a stranger, placing it among terms for harmful or threatening treatment.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

לָחַץlâchats · H3905לַחַץ lachats · H3906 · oppression, affliction · 12×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3905. lachats לָחַץ verb squeeze, press, figurative oppress (Arabic ;…
H3905. lachats
לָחַץ verb squeeze, press, figurative oppress (Arabic ; Christian-Palestinian Aramaic SchwIdioticon 48 (with which NöM74 compare Mandean הלאצא, torture, NS. press together, urge, exert oneself); see also rare derivatives in Syriac PS1932); —
Qal Perfect ׳ל Jdg 4:3 Jdg 4:2t. etc.; Imperfect suffixיִלְחָצֵנִי Psa 56:2-3;feminine singular וַתִּלְחַץ Num 22:25, etc.; Participle pluralלֹחֲצִים Exo 3:9 Exo 3:2t., etc. —
1 squeeze, press: followed by accusative + אֶל Jdg 1:34; Num 22:25b (J); followed by accusative + בְּ instrumental 2Ki 6:32 shut the door and press him (back, out) with the door.
2 oppress: followed by accusative of person Exo 22:20 (ׅ || (הוֺנָה, Exo 23:29 (both E), Psa 56:2; of people Exo 3:9 (E; + accusative of congnate meaning with verb), Jdg 2:18; Jdg 4:3; Jdg 6:9; Jdg 10:12; 1Sa 10:18; Amo 6:14; 2Ki 13:4, 2Ki 13:22; Jer 30:20; Psa 106:42; absolute Isa 19:20
Niph`al Imperfect3feminine singular וַתִּלָּחֵץ Num 22:25a (J) squeeze oneself, of Balaam's ass, followed byאלהַֿקִּיר.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Impact3 occurrencesMove1 occurrenceUnsafe15 occurrences

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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