Distress
צוֹקStrong’s H6695tsoq
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsoq is the Hebrew word usually translated “distress” and “distress of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.”
Meaning
- Constraint, distress, straitdistress, anguish (fig.)
- Pressure, distress
How it's translated
- and distress 2
- distress 1
- and in distress of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Proverbs 1
- Daniel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 1:27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- Isaiah 8:22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
- Isaiah 30:6The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
Hebrew dictionary
צוֹק tsoq · distress
1) constraint, distress, strait 1a) distress, anguish (fig.)
צוּקָה tsuqah · anguish
pressure, distress
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.