Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4691
מְצוּקָה
metsuqahmets-oo-kaw'
distress
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉtsûwqâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4691is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4691
narrowness, i.e. (figuratively) trouble
The King James renders it: anguish, distress.
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
metsuqah is rendered "distress". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 15:24Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.
Job 15:24וּמְצוּקָ֑ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's seven uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- from troubles their3
- and distress2
- and from troubles their1
- from distresses my1
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 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- מִ֝מְּצֻֽקוֹתֵיהֶ֗ם2
- וּֽ֝מִמְּצֽוּקֹתֵיהֶ֗ם1
- וּמְצוּקָ֑ה1
- וּמְצוּקָ֗ה1
- מִ֝מְּצֽוּקוֹתַ֗י1
- מִ֝מְּצֽוּקוֹתֵיהֶ֗ם1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural3HR/Ncfpc/Sp3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/R/Ncfpc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Ncfpc/Sp1bs
Job
one use
Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.
- וּמְצוּקָ֑הumetzukahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and distress
Psalms
five uses
The troubles of my heart increase; free me from my distress.
- מִ֝מְּצֽוּקוֹתַ֗יmimetzukotaipreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: from distresses my
Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.
- מִ֝מְּצֽוּקוֹתֵיהֶ֗םmimetzukoteihempreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: from troubles their
Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
- מִ֝מְּצֻֽקוֹתֵיהֶ֗םmimetzukoteihempreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: from troubles their
Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
- מִ֝מְּצֻֽקוֹתֵיהֶ֗םmimetzukoteihempreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: from troubles their
Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.
- וּֽ֝מִמְּצֽוּקֹתֵיהֶ֗םumimetzukoteihemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and from troubles their
Zephaniah
one use
That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
- וּמְצוּקָ֗הumetzukahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and 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.