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עָשׁוֹק

a.shoq

oppressor

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Strong’s H6216Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

an oppressor1

In the text

Jeremiah 22:3עָשׁוֹק
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

עָשׁוֹק oppressor, extortioner

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.