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נָגַשׂ — Brown–Driver–Briggs | Berean Institutes

Brown–Driver–Briggs: נָגַשׂ

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נָגַשׂ

nāgaś

press

[נָגַשׂ] vb. press, drive, oppress, exact

Qal

1. press, drive to work

2. exact

3. Pt. (= subst.) driver, taskmaster

Niph. hard pressed by enemy; treated harshly of suffering servant of י׳; recipr. tyrannize over each other

Brown–Driver–Briggs — CC-BY-4.0

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) Hebrew Lexicon, openscriptures/HebrewLexicon, CC BY 4.0. Curated by Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project.