nounOne who oppresses, or exercises undue severity in the use of power or authority. from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. nounOne who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity. ...
Significance of Israel: The People of God But Israel is not just an extended family that became a nation. That would not make them special in any way. Many other nations have specific ethnic identity. And many of them could recount similar stories of prosperity and oppression. What made Isra...
Since then, jubilee has not only kept its original, biblical sense, but has gained others, including one referring to a traditional African American spiritual that looks forward to a time of future happiness and deliverance from oppression. ...
Jeremiah insists that unless there is an end to oppression, greed, and violence in social relationships, there can be no shalom, however much the false prophets say the word (Jeremiah 6:1–9,14; compare Jeremiah 8:11). Shalom with(in) Oneself Shalom consists of not only outward peacefulnes...
The verbישע(yasha') means to be unrestricted and thus to be free and thus to be saved (from restriction, from oppression and thus from ultimate demise). A doer of this verb is a savior. Nounsישועה(yeshua),ישע(yesha') andתשועה(teshua) mean...
But when technology allows one person or oligarchy to exert great power over a large group of people, it's inevitable that the resultant society does not reflect the entire width and breadth of human temperament, and oppression is either forcibly executed or else generated by under-facilitating ...
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intransitive verbTo form or go in a procession. from The Century Dictionary. To go in procession. To treat or beset with processions. In some of the American colonies, to go about in order to settle the boundaries of, as land. The term is still used in North Carolina and Tennessee. Co...
9Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. “If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, Matthew 4:1-9 1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by ...
Then it says masculine and feminine roles are distinct in the Bible. FromThe Daily Beast As a grad student, I believed that ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ were tools of patriarchal oppression. FromThe Daily Beast He steeled himself, for he had had his experience of woman's wiles; and his...