Distress
מוּעָקָהStrong’s H4157muaqah (mu-a-qah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Muaqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “affliction”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.”
Meaning
- Compression, distress, pressure
How it's translated
- affliction 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מוּעָקָה muaqah · distress
compression, distress, pressure
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “distress” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISTRESS, noun
[See Stress.]
- The act of distraining; the taking of any personal chattel from a wrong-doer, to answer a demand, or procure satisfaction for a wrong committed.
- The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer great distress from the gout, or from the loss of near friends.
- Affliction; calamity; misery.“On earth distress of nations” Luke 21:25
All definitions and other forms of “distress”
- A state of danger; as a ship in distress from leaking, loss of spars, or want of provisions or water, etc.
DISTRESS, verb transitive
- To pain; to afflict with pain or anguish; applied to the body or the mind. [Literally, to press or strain.]
- To afflict greatly; to harass; to oppress with calamity; to make miserable.“DISTRESS not the Moabites” Deuteronomy 2:9“We are troubled on every side, but not distressed” 2 Corinthians 4:8
- To compel by pain or suffering.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.