נָגַשׂ (nāgaś) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning press. It appears
23 times
in 8 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H5065).
Also rendered
to oppress
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1296)
Range of meaning (TWOT 1296)press, drive, oppress, exact; driver, taskmaster; hard pressed, treated harshly, tyrannize over each other; tax, harass, tyrannize; distress, exactor, oppressor
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
נָגַשׂverb: press, drive, oppress, exact
Qal
1.press, drive to work
2.exact
3.participle (= substantive) driver, taskmaster
Niphalhard pressed by enemy; treated harshly of suffering servant of Jehovah; tyrannize over each other
Strong's H5065נָגַשׂ: to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by implication, to tax, harass, tyrannize KJV:distress, driver, exact(-or), oppress(-or), × raiser of taxes, taskmaster.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.