στενοχωρία
stenochōría · G4730 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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distress, difficulty
A set of difficult circumstances, implying certain restrictions
ExamplesRomans 2:9 There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of mankind who does evil, for the Jew first and also for the Greek,
Romans 8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
2 Corinthians 6:4 but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in difficulties,
How it’s used In 1 role
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2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 2
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Near synonyms 2 words
- θλῖψις thlîpsis · G2347 · trouble and suffering, suffering, persecution
- Common NT synonym for distress and affliction; both terms denote severe difficulty and suffering, with θλῖψις being the more frequent term for tribulation while στενοχωρία emphasizes the constraining, hemmed-in aspect of distress
- ἀνάγκη anánkē · G318 · trouble, distress, troublous times
- When used in the sense of distress or calamity, ἀνάγκη overlaps with στενοχωρία in denoting difficult circumstances, though ἀνάγκη emphasizes compulsion or pressing need rather than spatial constraint.
In the other Testament 2 words
- צָרָה tsârâh · H6869 · trouble, distress, anguish
- Standard Hebrew equivalent for 'distress, calamity'; both terms denote a state of extreme difficulty or affliction, frequently used in contexts of suffering and tribulation
- צוֹק tsôwq · H6695 · distress
- Hebrew term for constraint and distress, semantically equivalent to the Greek concept of being hemmed in or in straits
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Distress, difficulty22.10
- The noun names a state of severe pressure or hardship. Paul asks, “Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?”—set among the trials that cannot separate believers from the love of Christ, using this word for “distress” (Romans 8:35).
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon στενοχωρίας, ἡ (στενόχωρος), narrowness of place, a narrow space (Isa 8:22 (others take…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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