Distress
מְצוּקָהStrong’s H4691metsuqah (me-tsu-qah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Metsuqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “from troubles their”, “distress” and “from distresses my”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.”
Meaning
- Straitness, distress, straits, stress
How it's translated
- from troubles their 3
- and distress 2
- from distresses my 1
- and from troubles their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Job 1
- Zephaniah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 25:17The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
- Psalms 107:6Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
- Psalms 107:13Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
- Psalms 107:19Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
- Psalms 107:28Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
- Zephaniah 1:15That 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,
Hebrew dictionary
מְצוּקָה metsuqah · distress
straitness, distress, straits, stress
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.