Word

מְצוּקָה

mᵉtsûwqâh · H4691 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

distress

State in which humans experience distress

Examples
Job 15:24 “Distress and anguish terrify him, They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,
Psalm 25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged; Bring me out of my distresses.
Psalm 107:6 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; He saved them from their distresses.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 2 groups

הֶםtheir 4
יmy 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בָּעַתto torment 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 1 groups

מִןfrom 10

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יוֹםday, time 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Unsafe002003003022: The word denotes anguish or distress, used repeatedly in the Psalms of the troubles from which the afflicted cry out to the LORD for deliverance.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

צוּק tsûwq · H6693 · to nag, to pester, to oppress · 12×מְצוּקָהmᵉtsûwqâh · H4691מָצוֹק mâtsôwq · H4689 · distress · 6×צוֹק tsôwq · H6695 · distress · 4×מָצוּק mâtsûwq · H4690 · pillar · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4691. metsuqah מְצוּקָה noun feminine id.; — absolute וּמ ׳צַר Job 15:24; וּמ ׳צָרָה…

H4691. metsuqah
מְצוּקָה noun feminine id.; — absolute וּמ ׳צַר Job 15:24; וּמ ׳צָרָה יוֺם Zep 1:15; plural suffix, of ׳י delivering מִמְּצוּקוֺתַי Psa 25:17, מִמְּצוּקוֺתֵיהֶם etc., Psa 107:6; Psa 107:13; Psa 107:19; Psa 107:28.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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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