Words the Bible translates as affliction
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- thlipsisθλῖψιςaffliction: the crushing pressure of trouble, distress, or suffering bearing down on a person
- tsarahצָרָהdistress: the experience of being in a tight, threatening place, whether outward danger or inner anguish
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- a rival wife: a second wife who is felt as an adversary, the one who brings grief to the first
- mastixμάστιξa severe bodily affliction pictured as a lash falling on a person: a tormenting disease
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- a whip, and the flogging carried out with it
- oniעֳנִיaffliction: the hard, lowered condition of someone weighed down by suffering, oppression, or want
- ḥoliחֳלִיa sickness: an illness or disease of the body, and by extension the suffering or ruin that sickness pictures.
- pathēmaπάθημαsuffering: a specific affliction or hardship that a person undergoes
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- passion: an inward sinful impulse of the flesh
- laḥatsלַחַץoppression: the crushing weight a stronger party presses down on someone, and the hardship of living under it
- enutעֱנוּתafflictionnot studied yet
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