לַ֫חַץ
oppression
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3906 appears in the Book of Job — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Job
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
לחץ (lachats) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “oppression.” It first appears in Exodus 3:9. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 10 verses — uncommon. Psalms dominates its distribution — 3 of 10 verses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3906 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 3 verses 30%
- Exodus 1 verse 10%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 10%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 30%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Oppression 7×, Affliction 5×
- American Standard Version: Affliction 5×, Oppression 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Oppression 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Oppression 6×, Affliction 3×, Oppression of 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3906 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3906 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3906 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3906 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- oppression, distress, pressure
Word origin
n.m. oppression, distress;—ל׳ abs. 1 K 22:27(×2) + 5 times; cstr. 2 K 13:4 + 2 times; sf. לַחֲצֵ֫נוּ Dt 26:4 ψ 44:25;—oppression of Isr. Ex 3:9 (E; + vb. cogn.), 2 K 13:4 cf. Dt 26:7 (‖ עֳנִי, עָמָל) ψ 44:25 (‖ עֳנִי); oppr. of (i.e. by) an enemy, ψ 42:10; 43:2; in gen. Jb 36:15 (‖ עֳנִי); לֶחֶם ל׳ וּמַיִם ל׳ 1 K 22:27 = 2 Ch 18:26 bread of oppression and water of oppression, i. e. prison-fare (> Klo scanty fare); cf. לֶחֶם צַר וּמַיִם ל׳ Is 30:20, appar. of privations of a siege (cf. Che Di Du; on the apposition in these passages v. Ges§ 131. 2 (b) Köiii, § 333 p. q. DaSynt. § 29. e).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from לחץ (lâchats) (H3905) — to oppress.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
לָחַץ
- (b. h.) to squeeze; to force, press. Kidd. 22ᵃ (ref. to Deut. XXI, 12) ‘thou shalt bring her to thy house’ מלמד שלא יִלְחֲצֶנָּהּ במלחמה this intimates that he must not urge her (to yield to him) during the war. B. Mets. 59ᵇ והלוֹחֲצוֹ and he who presses him (the stranger), contrad. to אִנָּה.—Part. pass. לָחוּץ, pl. לְחוּצִים. Num. R. s. 11 דחוקים ול׳ pushed and pressed. e.g. Deuteronomy 21:12
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H3906 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/לַ֣חַץ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 42:9 | 2 |
| לַ֔חַץ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 22:27 | 2 |
| לַ֨חַץ֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 22:27 | 2 |
| בַּ/לַּ֣חַץ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 36:15 | 1 |
| הַ/לַּ֔חַץ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 3:9 | 1 |
| וְֽ/לַחֲצֵֽ/נוּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 44:24 | 1 |
| לַ֣חַץ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 2 Kings 13:4 | 1 |
| לַחֲצֵֽ/נוּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 26:7 | 1 |
| לָ֑חַץ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 30:20 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 3:9
- Deuteronomy 26:7
- 1 Kings 22:27
- 2 Kings 13:4
- 2 Chronicles 18:26
- Job 36:15
- Psalms 43:2
- Isaiah 30:20
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
