4 occurrences in 11 translations

'Oppressing' in the Bible

Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.

Verse ConceptsForeignersOppression, Nature OfWidows, Should Not BeSheddingOppressing ForeignersDifferent GodsDo Not MurderPenalties For Serving Other Gods

He hath forsaken, as a young lion, His covert, Surely their land hath become a desolation, Because of the oppressing fierceness, And because of the fierceness of His anger!

Verse ConceptsGod Like A LionLike Creatures

He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

Verse ConceptsPeople StumblingSaying Repeatedly

Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

Verse ConceptsBabylonSicklesNot SowingNot Reaping What You Sow

Bible Theasaurus

Crush (57 instances)
Oppress (69 instances)
Oppressing (22 instances)
Persecute (48 instances)
Suppress (7 instances)

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