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Oppress
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
"to exercise power over" (kata, "down," dunastes, "a potentate;" dunamai, "to have power"), "to oppress," is used, in the Passive Voice, in Acts 10:38; in the Active, in James 2:6 .
see DISTRESS , B, No. 4.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Oppress'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/o/oppress.html. 1940.