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Distress

14Greek/Hebrew entries

33stored occurrences

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Greek G85 adēmonéō

Original: ἀδημονέω

Meaning:
from a derivative of (to be sated to loathing); to be in distress (of mind):--be full of heaviness, be very heavy.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to be in distress (of mind):--be full of heaviness, be very heavy.

Greek G318 anánkē

Original: ἀνάγκη

Meaning:
from ἀνά and the base of ἀγκάλη; constraint (literally or figuratively); by implication, distress:--distress, must needs, (of) necessity(-sary), needeth, needful.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: by implication, distress:--distress, must needs, (of) necessity(-sary), needeth, needful.

Greek G4518 sabachtháni

Original: σαβαχθάνι

Meaning:
of Chaldee or (שְׁבַק with pronominal suffix); thou hast left me; sabachthani (i.e. shebakthani), a cry of distress:--sabachthani.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: sabachthani (i.e. shebakthani), a cry of distress:--sabachthani.

Greek G4730 stenochōría

Original: στενοχωρία

Meaning:
from a compound of στενός and χώρα; narrowness of room, i.e. (figuratively) calamity:--anguish, distress.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: narrowness of room, i.e. (figuratively) calamity:--anguish, distress.

Greek G4928 synochḗ

Original: συνοχή

Meaning:
from συνέχω; restraint, i.e. (figuratively) anxiety:--anguish, distress.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: restraint, i.e. (figuratively) anxiety:--anguish, distress.

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Hebrew H4689 mâtsôwq

Original: מָצוֹק

Meaning:
from צוּק; a narrow place, i.e. (abstractly and figuratively) confinement or disability; anguish, distress, straitness.

Hebrew H4691 mᵉtsûwqâh

Original: מְצוּקָה

Meaning:
or מְצֻקָה; feminine of מָצוּק; narrowness, i.e. (figuratively) trouble; anguish, distress.

Hebrew H4712 mêtsar

Original: מֵצַר

Meaning:
from קֵבָה; something tight, i.e. (figuratively) trouble; distress, pain, strait.

Hebrew H5065 nâgas

Original: נָגַשׂ

Meaning:
a primitive root; to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by implication, to tax, harass, tyrannize; distress, driver, exact(-or), oppress(-or), [idiom] raiser of taxes, taskmaster.

Hebrew H6693 tsûwq

Original: צוּק

Meaning:
a primitive root; to compress, i.e. (figuratively) oppress, distress; constrain, distress, lie sore, (op-) press(-or), straiten.

Hebrew H6696 tsûwr

Original: צוּר

Meaning:
a primitive root; to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile); adversary, assault, beset, besiege, bind (up), cast, distress, fashion, fortify, inclose, lay siege, put up in bags.

Hebrew H6862 tsar

Original: צַר

Meaning:
or צָר; from צָרַר; compare as in צֹר; narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble ; (transitive) an opponent (as crowding); adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.

Hebrew H6869 tsârâh

Original: צָרָה

Meaning:
feminine of צַר; tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:; adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.

Hebrew H6887 tsârar

Original: צָרַר

Meaning:
a primitive root; to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive; adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.

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^{Genesis 35:3} And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. Open

^{Genesis 42:21} And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. Open

^{Deuteronomy 2:9} And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession. Open

^{Deuteronomy 2:19} And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession. Open

^{Deuteronomy 28:53} And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: Open

^{Deuteronomy 28:55} So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. Open

^{Deuteronomy 28:57} And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. Open

^{Judges 11:7} And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress? Open

^{1 Samuel 22:2} And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men. Open

^{2 Samuel 22:7} In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears. Open

^{1 Kings 1:29} And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress, Open

^{2 Chronicles 28:22} And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz. Open

^{Nehemiah 2:17} Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. Open

^{Nehemiah 9:37} And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress. Open

^{Psalm 4:1} Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. Open

^{Psalm 18:6} In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. Open

^{Psalm 118:5} I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place. Open

^{Psalm 120:1} In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me. Open

^{Proverbs 1:27} When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Open

^{Isaiah 25:4} For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. Open

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^{Isaiah 29:2} Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. Open

^{Isaiah 29:7} And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. Open

^{Jeremiah 10:18} For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so. Open

^{Lamentations 1:20} Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. Open

^{Obadiah 1:12} But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. Open

^{Obadiah 1:14} Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. Open

^{Zephaniah 1:15} That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, Open

^{Zephaniah 1:17} And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. Open

^{Luke 21:23} But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. Open

^{Luke 21:25} And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Open

^{Romans 8:35} Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Open

^{1 Corinthians 7:26} I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. Open

^{1 Thessalonians 3:7} Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: Open

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