Words the Bible translates as anguish
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- 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
- odunēὀδύνηanguishnot studied yet
- stenochōriaστενοχωρίαdistress that feels like being hemmed in with no way out
- odunaōὀδυνάωto be in intense pain or anguish, whether of body or of heart
- yagonיָגוֹןsorrow: the deep, inward grief of the heart, the lasting kind that quietly wears a person down
- sunochēσυνοχήanguishnot studied yet
- ḥilחִילwrithing pain: the doubling-over agony of childbirth, used above all for the terror that grips people when God's judgment closes in
- metsuqahמְצוּקָהstraits: distress felt as crushing pressure, the tight place a person is squeezed into with no room left
- ḥalḥalahחַלְחָלָהanguishnot studied yet
- tsuqahצוּקָהanguishnot studied yet
- adēmoneōἀδημονέωto be in acute, disorienting distress: anguished and thrown off one's inner balance, far beyond ordinary worry
- qephadahקְפָדָהanguishnot studied yet
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