מוּץ
mûwts · H4160 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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oppressor, abuser
A person who mistreats other people
ExamplesIsaiah 16:4 “Let the outcasts of Moab stay with you; Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.” For the oppressor has come to an end, destruction has ceased, Oppressors have been removed from the land.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָפֵסto be finished 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- עָשַׁק ʻâshaq · H6231 · to practice extortion, to defraud, to abuse
- Verbal root denoting the act of oppression and extortion; מוּץ (mûwts, H4160) is the nominal form of one who extorts, while עָשַׁק (ʻâshaq, H6231) describes the activity itself, but they are semantically very close in the domain of economic exploitation
- עֹשֶׁק ʻôsheq · H6233 · extortion, abuse, oppression
- Nominal form denoting the abstract concept or act of oppression/extortion; מוּץ (mûwts, H4160) refers to the agent (extortioner) while עֹשֶׁק (ʻôsheq, H6233) refers to the action/abstraction, both within the semantic field of economic exploitation
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἅρπαξ hárpax · G727 · robber, plunderer, vicious
- Greek adjective/substantive denoting one who seizes or extorts by force, the standard LXX and NT translation equivalent for the concept of extortion/extortioner
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- מוּץ denotes an extortioner, one who oppresses through unjust exaction, as reflected in its gloss 'extortioner' used in Isaiah 16:4's plea for relief "from the destroyer," placing it among terms for harmful or threatening figures.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4160. muts מֵץ noun masculine squeezer, i.e. extortioner, oppressor, only הַמֵּץ Isa…
מֵץ noun masculine squeezer, i.e. extortioner, oppressor, only הַמֵּץ Isa 16:4.
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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