forced
14 occurrences across the corpus
King James Version
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)
For he, peradventure willing to please one in authority, forced all his skill to make the resemblance of the best fashion.
And if thou hast been forced to eat, arise, go forth, vomit, and thou shalt have rest.
Thus many of them they wounded, and some they struck to the ground, and all of them they forced to flee: but as for the churchrobber himself, him they killed beside the treasury.
Apostolic Fathers
Now one named Quintus, a Phrygian, who was but lately come from Phrygia, when he saw the wild beasts, became afraid. This was the man who forced himself and some others to come forward voluntarily [for trial]. Him the proconsul, after many entreaties, persuaded to swear and to offer sacrifice. Wherefore, brethren, we do not commend those who give themselves up [to suffering], seeing the gospel does not teach so to do.
Jubilees
which they had forced them to serve. And we did not lead forth the children of Israel from Egypt empty handed.
OT Pseudepigrapha
"And we are forced to enter this cave which is like a prison, wherein darkness covers us, so that we are parted from each other; and thou canst not see me, neither can I see thee."
O my son! let not a word issue from thy mouth till thou hast taken counsel with thy heart. And stand not betwixt persons quarrelling, because from a bad word there comes a quarrel, and from a quarrel there comes war, and from war there comes fighting, and thou wilt be forced to bear witness; but run from thence and rest thyself.