Words the Bible translates as trouble
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 23 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- raרַעcalamity: disaster, ruin, or affliction that falls on a person or nation, the trouble that is the opposite of well-being
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- bad: failing the standard of what it should be, whether defective, harmful, or unpleasant, with no question of sin
- morally evil: conduct, intent, or persons that are wrong in the sight of God, the opposite of what is good
- thlipsisθλῖψιςaffliction: the crushing pressure of trouble, distress, or suffering bearing down on a person
- kakiaκακίαtrouble: the hardship or misfortune that a day brings with it.
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- badness inside a person: above all ill will toward others, and more broadly a corrupt character and the wrongs it produces.
- tarassōταράσσωto agitate: to stir something into commotion, whether water, a person's heart, or a crowd
- 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
- 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
- avenאָוֶןevil that comes to nothing: the emptiness, harm, and wickedness of a life set against God
- 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
- koposκόποςtrouble or bother imposed on someone; the burden of being pestered or worn down.
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- hard, wearying work; toil that costs real sweat, strength, and fatigue.
- amalעָמָלwearing toil: hard work that drains a person, the misery that comes with it, and what such work finally yields
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- mischief: harm that one person deliberately schemes and works against another
- oniעֳנִיaffliction: the hard, lowered condition of someone weighed down by suffering, oppression, or want
- parechōπαρέχωto make something available to someone: to furnish, provide, offer, or bring it about
- parenochleōπαρενοχλέωto troublenot studied yet
- akharעָכַרto bring ruin on a person or community by fouling their shared life, the way stirred mud clouds clear water until nothing is left safe or usable
- mehumahמְהוּמָהthe collapse of order into chaos: panic that shatters an army, unrest that makes a country unsafe, turmoil that unsettles a life
- behalבְּהַלto alarm: to strike someone with sudden dread that throws the mind into fearful confusion
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- to act in alarmed haste: to move hurriedly under the press of urgency or fright
- enochleōἐνοχλέωto troublenot studied yet
- metsuqahמְצוּקָהstraits: distress felt as crushing pressure, the tight place a person is squeezed into with no room left
- rogezרֹגֶזagitation: shaking, churning commotion that will not settle, whether in a rumbling sky, a quivering body, an unquiet life, or a burst of anger
- pa'amפָּעַםto troublenot studied yet
- skullōσκύλλωto troublenot studied yet
- dalaḥדָּלַחto troublenot studied yet
- diatarassōδιαταράσσωto troublenot studied yet
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