צוֹק
tsôwq · H6695 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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distress
State in which humans experience distress
ExamplesDaniel 9:25 “So you are to know and understand that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until Messiah the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with streets and moat, even in times of distress.
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵתtime, moment, period 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מָעוּףgloom 1
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- צָרָה tsârâh · H6869 · trouble, distress, anguish
- צָרָה is a common Hebrew term for distress and anguish, widely attested and semantically overlapping with צוֹק. Both denote states of severe difficulty and emotional/circumstantial constraint, though צָרָה is more frequent and broadly used.
- עֶצֶב ʻetseb · H6089 · labor, toil, hard work
- עָצֶב denotes emotional pain and sorrow, overlapping with the anguish sense of צוֹק. Both describe states of inner distress, though עָצֶב emphasizes emotional pain while צוֹק often implies constraint or pressure leading to anguish.
In the other Testament 3 words
- θλῖψις thlîpsis · G2347 · trouble and suffering, suffering, persecution
- θλῖψις is the standard LXX rendering for Hebrew terms denoting distress and anguish, including contexts where צוֹק appears (e.g., Dan 9:25 'troublous times'). Both denote a state of being pressed or oppressed, emotional/physical distress.
- ἀνάγκη anánkē · G318 · trouble, distress, troublous times
- ἀνάγκη in its sense of 'distress, calamity' (not mere 'necessity') corresponds to Hebrew terms for constraint and anguish. Both convey the idea of being in straits or under compulsion from adverse circumstances.
- στενοχωρία stenochōría · G4730 · distress, difficulty
- στενοχωρία literally means 'narrowness of space' and metaphorically 'distress, anguish', parallel to צוֹק which also carries the root sense of narrowness/constraint leading to anguish.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- צוֹק denotes anguish or distress, as of the distress and anguish that come like a storm in Proverbs 1:27, the distress and darkness of Isaiah 8:22, the land of distress and anguish of Isaiah 30:6, and the times of distress marking Jerusalem's rebuilding in Daniel 9:25.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6695. tsowq צוֺק noun [masculine] si vera lectio, constraint, distress; — הָעִתִּים…
צוֺק noun [masculine] si vera lectio, constraint, distress; — הָעִתִּים וּבְצוֺק Dan 9:25 usually in distressful times; Gr וגו ׳וּבְקֵץ (so ᵐ5 [Dan 9:27] ᵑ6), as beginning of Dan 9:26, omitting וְ in וְאחרי (compare Bev Marti).
צוּקָה noun feminine pressure, distress; — national Isa 8:22 (+צָרָה), compare וְצ צָרָה ׳אֶרֶץ Isa 30:6; personal וְצ ׳צָרָה Pro 1:27.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), 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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