Words the Bible translates as distress
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.
- thlipsisθλῖψιςaffliction: the crushing pressure of trouble, distress, or suffering bearing down on a person
- tsarצַרnarrow and tight, and so the pressure of being hemmed in: distress, trouble, straits
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- an enemy: one who acts with hostility, an opponent or foe
- 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
- anagkēἀνάγκηdistress: the pressure of hard and painful circumstances; a tight, threatening situation that hems a person in
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- necessity: something that must be so or must be done, whether it follows by reason, is owed as a duty, or presses on a person as a compulsion
- tsararצָרַרto bind tight, or to be pressed tight: to wrap something up, to be too narrow, or to be squeezed into hardship
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- to treat as an enemy: to be hostile toward someone, to oppose them as a foe or rival
- tsurצוּרto hem in: to close something off so it cannot get out or move freely, whether a besieged city, money tied in a bag, or a person pressed on every side
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- to treat as an enemy: to act with hostility toward someone, opposing or harassing them
- to fashion: to shape an object out of metal by working it into form
- edאֵידdisaster: a sudden, crushing catastrophe that overtakes a person or a nation, often the appointed day of their downfall
- stenochōriaστενοχωρίαdistress that feels like being hemmed in with no way out
- tsuqצוּקto press hard on someone until there is no room left: to hem in, harass, or wear down by relentless pressure
- metsuqahמְצוּקָהstraits: distress felt as crushing pressure, the tight place a person is squeezed into with no room left
- matsoqמָצוֹקdistressnot studied yet
- mu'aqahמוּעָקָהdistressnot studied yet
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