θλῖψις

or θλῖψις (so L Tr) (cf. Winers Grammar, § 6, 1 e.; Lipsius, Grammat. Untersuch., p. 35), θλίψεως, ἡ (θλίβω), properly, a pressing, pressing together, pressure (Strabo, p. 52; Galen); in Biblical and ecclesiastical writings, a Greek metaphor, oppression, affliction, tribulation, distress, straits; Vulg.tribulatio, also pressura (2 Cor 1:4b; (Jn 16:21),33; (Phm 1:16 (17); and in Col 1:24 passio)); (the Sept. for צָרָה, also for צַר, לַחַץ, etc.): Mt 24:9; Acts 7:11; Acts 11:19; Rom 12:12; 2 Cor 1:4, 2 Cor 1:8; 2 Cor 4:17; 2 Cor 6:4; 2 Cor 7:4; 2 Cor 8:2; 2 Thess 1:6; Rev 1:9; Rev 2:9, Rev 2:22; Rev 7:14; joined with στενοχωρία (cf. Trench, § lv.), Rom 2:9; Rom 8:35 (Deut 28:53f; Isa. (); ); with ἀνάγκη, 1 Thess 3:7; with διωγμός, Mt 13:21; Mk 4:17; 2 Thess 1:4; of the afflictions of those hard pressed by siege and the calamities of war, Mt 24:21, Mt 24:29; Mk 13:19, Mk 13:24; of the straits of want, 2 Cor 8:13; Phm 4:14 (here others give the word a wider reference); Jas 1:27; of the distress of a woman in childbirth; Jn 16:21. θλῖψιν ἔχω (equivalent to θλίβομαι), Jn 16:33; 1 Cor 7:28; Rev 2:10; θλῖψις ἐπί τινα ἔρχεται, Acts 7:11; ἐν θλίψει, 1 Thess 1:6. plural: Acts 7:10; Acts 14:22; Acts 20:23; Rom 5:3; Eph 3:13; 1 Thess 3:3; Heb 10:33; τοῦ Χριστοῦ, the afflictions which Christ had to undergo (and which, therefore, his followers must not shrink from), Col 1:24 (see ἀνταναπληρόω); θλῖψις τῆς καρδίας (καί συνοχή), anxiety, burden of heart, 2 Cor 2:4; θλῖψιν ἐπιφέρειν (L T Tr WH ἐγείρειν, see ἐγείρω, 4 c.) τοῖς δεσμοῖς τίνος, to increase the misery of my imprisonment by causing me anxiety, Phm 1:16 (17).