Distress
מָצוֹקStrong’s H4689matsoq (ma-tsoq)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Matsoq is the Hebrew word usually translated “distress” and “anguish”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“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:”
Meaning
- Straitness, straits, distress, stress, anguish
How it's translated
- and in distress 4
- distress 1
- and anguish 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 3
- 1 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 28:55So 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.
- Deuteronomy 28:57And 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.
- 1 Samuel 22:2And 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.
- Psalms 119:143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
- Jeremiah 19:9And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Hebrew dictionary
מָצוֹק matsoq · distress
straitness, straits, distress, stress, anguish
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.