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title: יָנָה — suppress · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָנָה (3238), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 19 times: suppress. BDB 1906: vb. suppress oppress maltreat. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָנָה

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«יָנָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **suppress** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 19 times · **Key:** 3238 · **BDB:** יָנָה

### Glosses

the.oppressor (3); he.has.oppressed (2); maltreat (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

suppress [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3238/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. suppress oppress maltreat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3238/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. suppress (?) oppress, maltreat (NH Hiph. vex with words; so Aramaic Aph. אוֹנִי, but also 𝔗 for Heb. הוֹנָה maltreat; Arabic وَنَى is laxus, debilis fuit, iv. debilitavit, defaligavit, but connex. dub.)— Impf. 1 pl. sf. נִינָם ψ 74:8; Pt. יוֹנָה Je 25:38 + 3 times + ψ 123:4 (v. infr.); suppress (?), sq. acc. ψ 74:8 (dub.; Ges§ 76f); elsewhere oppress; Pt. abs. as adj. הָעִיר הַיּוֹנָה Zp 3:1; subst. f. coll. הַיּוֹנָה oppressors Je 25:38 (but read חֶרֶב for חֲרוֹן, with 𝔊 Ew Hi Gf Ke etc., as 46:16; 50:16); ψ 123:4 Qr לִגְאֵי יוֹנִים proudest oppressors (st. cstr. in superlat., cf. Ges§ 133, 3, R. 1.; yet most follow Kt לגאייונים, and der. from גַּאֲיוֹן q.v. p. 145 supr.) Pf. הוֹנָה Ez 18:12, 16; הוֹנוּ 22:7, 29; Impf. יוֹנֶה 18:7; 2 ms. תּוֹנֶה Ex 22:20; תּוֹנֶנּוּ Dt 23:17; יוֹנוּ Ez 45:8; תּוֹנוּ Lv 19:33 + 2 times; תֹּנוּ Je 22:3; Inf. sf. הוֹנֹתָם Ez 46:18; Pt. מוֹנַ֫יִךְ Is 49:26;—oppress, maltreat, sq. acc., especially of ill-treatment of poor and weak, partic. of the גֵּר, the ‘stranger,’ sojourner, by the rich and powerful, Ex 22:20 (JE), Lv 19:33; 25:14, 17 (H), Dt 23:17; Je 22:3; Ez 18:7, 12, 16; 22:7, 29; 45:8; 46:18; of a foreign oppressor only Is 49:26.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָנָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3238/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Zephaniah 3:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.3.1/)

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ה֥וֹי מֹרְאָ֖ה וְנִגְאָלָ֑ה הָעִ֖יר הַיּוֹנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* woe.to! \[the.one.who.is\].rebellious and \[the.one.who.is\].defiled the city \[which\] oppresses

*JPS 1917:* Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

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[Leviticus 19:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.33/)

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וְכִֽי־יָג֧וּר אִתְּךָ֛ גֵּ֖ר בְּאַרְצְכֶ֑ם לֹ֥א תוֹנ֖וּ אֹתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and (dm) he.will.sojourn with you a.sojourner in land your not you.will.maltreat him

*JPS 1917:* And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.

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