a.shaq denotes exploiting or mistreating people, especially the poor, needy, workers, and other vulnerable persons.

The verb most often marks the harmful treatment or exploitation of people, particularly poor, needy, displaced, or otherwise vulnerable persons; its passive participles also describe those subjected to such treatment. The surrounding clauses connect it with withheld wages, seizure of property, robbery, and the need for justice or deliverance.

1. Exploiting people and those subjected to it · dominant

   Active forms identify conduct directed against vulnerable people: in Leviticus 19:13 the prohibition concerns a neighbor and is followed by the instruction not to keep a hired worker's wages overnight; in Deuteronomy 24:14 it concerns a poor and needy hired servant; and in Micah 2:2 it stands with seizing lands and houses from a man and his inheritance. Passive participles identify people under this harm: in Psalm 103:6 the APB renders the clause as justice for “all the oppressed,” while Jeremiah 50:33 describes Israel and Judah as held fast by captors.

   Leviticus 19:13Deuteronomy 24:14Micah 2:2Ezekiel 22:29Psalm 103:6Jeremiah 50:33

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly uses “oppress” and “oppressed,” as in Leviticus 19:13 and Psalm 103:6; elsewhere it includes wording such as “practiced extortion” in Ezekiel 22:29. These renderings indicate the clauses' presentation rather than fixed English equivalents.