This denominative verb means to press or extract oil, specifically from olives. In Job 24:11, it appears in a lament about injustice: workers press oil within the walls of the wicked but go thirsty themselves. The verb captures hard agricultural labor, the physical work of crushing olives to release their oil—valuable work that should bring reward but here brings only exploitation. It's a snapshot of economic oppression, the laborers enriching others while remaining poor.