Words the Bible translates as afflict
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- thlibōθλίβωto afflict: to bear down on someone with hardship, trouble, or persecution, like a weight pressing from outside
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- to press physically: to squeeze or crowd something so that it is pinched tight
- anahעָנָהto bring someone low: to afflict, humble, or oppress, by force or by hardship; and being brought low oneself.
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- to be occupied or busied with something: to be kept busy at a task.
- alalעָלַלto work one's will on a person: to deal harshly with them, to make sport of or abuse them
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- to glean: to go back over a harvested vine or field and strip off what remains
- to thrust or lay something in the dust, or to defile it there (used only of Job and his horn)
- laḥatsלָחַץto bear down on with crushing pressure: to press or squeeze something physically, and so to oppress or afflict a person or a people
- yagahיָגָהto cause someone grief: to lay sorrow on a person, or to be the one bowed under sorrow that someone else has laid on them
- anahעֲנָיto afflictnot studied yet
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