יָנָהyânâh
suppress (?), oppress, maltreat
Pronunciation: yaw-naw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3238
Meanings
Qal: suppress (?) (Psalms 74:8; Jeremiah 25:38; Psalms 123:4)
Hiph`il: oppress, maltreat (Ezekiel 18:12; Ezekiel 18:16; Ezekiel 22:7)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 19 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 22:21 “You must not mistreat or oppress foreigners in any way. Remember, you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Leviticus 19:33 “Do not take advantage of foreigners who live among you in your land.
- Leviticus 25:14 “When you make an agreement with your neighbor to buy or sell property, you must not take advantage of each other.
- Leviticus 25:17 Show your fear of God by not taking advantage of each other. I am the Lord your God.
- Deuteronomy 23:16 Let them live among you in any town they choose, and do not oppress them.
- Psalms 74:8 Then they thought, “Let’s destroy everything!” So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).