To afflict, oppress, humble — and, in the intensive innah, to FORCE, degrade, violate. Prophesied of Israel in Egypt (15:13), dealt by Sarai to an Egyptian (16:6), accepted in the angel's hard 'submit yourself' (16:9), heard by God in Hagar's 'affliction' (16:11) — the Exodus verb, running backward. Its darkest Genesis use is 34:2, of Shechem and Dinah — 'he took her and lay with her and innah her,' the law's own word for rape (Deuteronomy 22:29; what Amnon does to Tamar, 2 Samuel 13:14). The KJV/ASV soften it to 'humbled'; this translation renders it 'violated.' ⭐ The same root returns, decades later and unrelated to that darkest sense, at Deuteronomy 8:2-3 and 8:16 (already on these pages), paired with the verb 'to test': Jehovah 'humbles' Israel in the wilderness with hunger and manna — the Exodus-Egypt affliction verb, run once against a people and once, deliberately, FOR them. ⭐ Deuteronomy 22 uses it twice, and the two uses sit at opposite ends of the same chapter's sentencing. At 22:24 a man is stoned because he violated his neighbour's wife; at 22:29 a man pays fifty of silver and marries the woman because he violated her. The same verb names a capital offence and a fine, five verses apart, and what separates them is only whether the woman was betrothed. ⚠ It arrives there from 21:14, of the captive woman a soldier may not then sell, and it is the verb of the two narratives the law is usually read beside — Shechem and Dinah at Genesis 34:2, and Amnon and Tamar at 2 Samuel 13 (not yet on these pages). → first discussed at Gen 15:13