Constraint
מוּצָקStrong’s H4164mutsaq (mu-tsaq)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mutsaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “constraint” and “distress”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.”
Meaning
- Constraint, distress
How it's translated
- constraint 2
- distress 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 37:10By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
- Isaiah 9:1Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
Hebrew dictionary
מוּצָק mutsaq · constraint
constraint, distress
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “constraint” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONSTRAINT, noun
Irresistible force, or its effect; any force, or power, physical or moral, which compels to act or to forbear action, or which urges so strongly as to produce its effect upon the body or mind; compulsion; restraint; confinement.
- “Feed the flock of God, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint but willingly” 1 Peter 5:2
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.