Oppressive
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Oppressive (6 Occurrences)

Judges 6:2 The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds. (See NIV)

Psalms 66:11 You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs. (See NAS)

Psalms 73:16 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me; (See NIV)

Isaiah 10:1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; (WEB NIV)

Isaiah 18:2 Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers. (See NAS)

Isaiah 18:7 In that time an offering will be made to the Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion. (See NAS)

Thesaurus
Oppressive (6 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive
taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law. ...
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Tyrannize (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vi) To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and
oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required ...
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Sultry (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (superl.) Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts. 2.
(superl.) Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air. ...
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Burden (111 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) That which is borne or carried; a load. 2. (n.) That which is borne with
labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. ...
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Heavy (110 Occurrences)
... 3. (superl.) Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish;
hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings ...
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Quit (12 Occurrences)
... 3. (imp. & pp) of Quit. 4. (v.) To set at rest; to free, as from anything
harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. ...
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Oppressively (1 Occurrence)

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Oppressions (5 Occurrences)

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Light (2869 Occurrences)
... task. 25. (superl.) Easy to be digested; not oppressive to the stomach; as,
light food; also, containing little nutriment. 26. (superl ...
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Gadara
... Great in 30 BC (Ant., XV, vii, 3; BJ, I, xx, 3). The emperor would not listen to
the accusations of the inhabitants against Herod for oppressive conduct (Ant ...
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Greek
1419. dusbastaktos -- hard to be borne, oppressive
... hard to be borne, oppressive. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: dusbastaktos
Phonetic Spelling: (doos-bas'-tak-tos) Short Definition: difficult to ...
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926. barus -- heavy
... and met; violent, oppressive. Cognate: 926 -- (an adjective, also used
substantively) -- properly, heavy (weighty); (figuratively ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (a.) Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law.

2. (a.) Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands.

3. (a.) Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe.

Strong's Hebrew
4001. mebusah -- a treading down, subjugation
... << 4000, 4001. mebusah. 4002 >>. a treading down, subjugation. Transliteration:
mebusah Phonetic Spelling: (meb-oo-saw') Short Definition: oppressive. ...
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6216. ashoq -- oppressor, extortioner
... oppressor. From ashaq; oppressive (as noun, a tyrant) -- oppressor. see HEBREW
ashaq. << 6215, 6216. ashoq. 6217 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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2929. Talmon -- an Israelite name
... name NASB Word Usage Talmon (5). Talmon. From the same as chargol; oppressive; Talmon,
a temple doorkeeper -- Talmon. see HEBREW chargol. << 2928, 2929. ...
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4157. muaqah -- compression, distress
... Definition: burden. Word Origin from uq Definition compression, distress
NASB Word Usage oppressive burden (1). affliction. From uwq ...
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