Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4689
מָצוֹק
matsoqmaw-tsoke'
distress
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâtsôwq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4689is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4689
a narrow place, i.e. (abstractly and figuratively) confinement or disability
The King James renders it: anguish, distress, straitness.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
matsoq is rendered "distress". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 28:53Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
Deuteronomy 28:53וּבְמָצ֔וֹק
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's six uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and in distress4
- and anguish1
- distress1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּבְמָצ֔וֹק4
- וּמָצ֥וֹק1
- מָצ֜וֹק1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular4HC/R/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
Deuteronomy
three uses
Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
- וּבְמָצ֔וֹקuvematzokconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in distress
refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.
- וּבְמָצ֔וֹקuvematzokconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in distress
the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
- וּבְמָצ֔וֹקuvematzokconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in distress
1 Samuel
one use
And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.
- מָצ֜וֹקmatzoknoun · masculine singulartagged: distress
Psalms
one use
Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
- וּמָצ֥וֹקumatzokconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and anguish
Jeremiah
one use
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
- וּבְמָצ֔וֹקuvematzokconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in distress
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.