לָחַץ

Exodus 3:9 לֹחֲצִ֥ים [are] oppressing

And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.

Here: An ongoing action: they are pressing them right now, and it continues. It shares a root with the noun before it ('the squeezing with which they squeeze them'), and the repetition piles on the weight.

Exodus 22:21 תִלְחָצֶ֑נּוּ you must oppress him

You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Here: "Nor squeeze him." The word pictures physical pressing, pinning someone against a wall. It is the same word God used for what Egypt did to Israel (Exodus 3:9).

Exodus 23:9 תִלְחָ֑ץ you must oppress

Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Here: A physical verb for pressing someone against something, used here for leaning on a person who cannot push back. It is singular, so it lands on each individual Israelite, and it is the same verb used for what Egypt did to Israel (Exodus 3:9).

Numbers 22:25 וַתִּלָּחֵץ֙ וַתִּלְחַ֛ץ and it squeezed itself, and it squeezed

And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD and pressed herself against the wall, crushing Balaam’s foot against it. So he beat her once again.

Judges 1:34 וַיִּלְחֲצ֧וּ and they pressed

The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain.

Judges 2:18 לֹחֲצֵיהֶ֖ם [those who] oppressed them

Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.

Here: 'Those squeezing them': the verb means to press hard or crush. It is the Exodus word for Egypt's oppression (Exod 3:9), so the scene is cast as a repeat of Egypt.

Judges 4:3 לָחַ֞ץ he oppressed

Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

Here: Physically, to squeeze or pin something against a wall. Used of people, it means crushing them under pressure. It is the word used for Egypt's oppression of Israel (Exod 3:9). The verb form here can be read 'had oppressed'.

Judges 6:9 לֹחֲצֵיכֶ֑ם [those who] oppressed you

I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.

Judges 10:12 לָחֲצ֖וּ they oppressed

Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?

1 Samuel 10:18 הַלֹּחֲצִ֖ים that were oppressing

and said to the Israelites, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hands of the Egyptians and of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’

2 Kings 6:32 וּלְחַצְתֶּ֤ם and you will push

Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”

2 Kings 13:4 לָחַ֥ץ he oppressed

Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him because He saw the oppression that the king of Aram had inflicted on Israel.

Here: The verb from the same root as the noun just used: 'the squeezing… for he squeezed them'. The repetition presses the point home.

2 Kings 13:22 לָחַ֖ץ he had oppressed

And Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel throughout the reign of Jehoahaz.

Psalm 56:1 יִלְחָצֵֽנִי׃ he oppresses me

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.

Here: 'He presses me' or 'he squeezes me.' The word is physical: Balaam's donkey crushing his foot against a wall (Num 22:25), Egypt's pressure on enslaved Israel (Exod 3:9). The imperfect form describes ongoing, repeated action: he keeps hemming me in.

Psalm 106:42 וַיִּלְחָצ֥וּם and they oppressed them

Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.

Isaiah 19:20 לֹֽחֲצִ֔ים oppressors

It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them.

Here: Those who press, squeeze or crush. It is used without 'the', so 'oppressors' in general, leaving them unnamed. It is the verb used in Exod 3:9 for what Egypt did to Israel: 'the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them'.

Jeremiah 30:20 לֹחֲצָֽיו׃ [those who] oppress it

Their children will be as in days of old, and their congregation will be established before Me; and I will punish all their oppressors.

Amos 6:14 וְלָחֲצ֥וּ and they will oppress

For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”