עָשׁוּק ʻâshûwq

Meaning

used in plural masculine as abstractly, tyranny

In the King James Version: oppressed(-ion). (Doubtful.)

Derivation: or עָשֻׁק; passive participle of H6231 (עָשַׁק);

Where it is used

• Job 35:9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
• Ecclesiastes 4:1 Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
• Amos 3:9 Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.”