Hebrew verb · H6693
צוּק
tsuqtsook
to press
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsûwq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6693is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6693
to compress, i.e. (figuratively) oppress, distress
The King James renders it: constrain, distress, lie sore, (op-) press(-or), straiten.
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
tsuq is rendered "to press". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Isaiah, 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 nine 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 28:53יָצִ֥יק
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's eleven uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he will bring distress3
- the oppressor2
- and I will bring distress1
- and those bring distress1
- it has constrained me1
- she pressed1
- she pressed him1
- they will press1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| צוּק | tsuq | to pour | Uses3 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- יָצִ֥יק3
- הַמֵּצִ֔יק1
- הַמֵּצִֽיק׃1
- הֵצִ֨יקָה1
- הֱצִיקַ֔תְהוּ1
- הֱ֝צִיקַ֗תְנִי1
- וְהַמְּצִיקִ֖ים1
- וַהֲצִיק֖וֹתִי1
- יָצִ֧יקוּ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVhi3ms
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular2HTd/Vhrmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural1HC/Td/Vhrmpa
- Hc/Vhq1cs1Hc/Vhq1cs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVhi3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVhp3fs
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVhp3fs/Sp1bs
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhp3fs/Sp3ms
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.
- יָצִ֥יקyatzikverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will bring 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.
- יָצִ֥יקyatzikverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will bring 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.
- יָצִ֥יקyatzikverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will bring distress
Judges
two uses
She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.
- הֱצִיקַ֔תְהוּhetzikathuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: she pressed him
Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,
- הֵצִ֨יקָהhetzikahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she pressed
Job
one use
For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
- הֱ֝צִיקַ֗תְנִיhetzikatniverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it has constrained me
Isaiah
four uses
And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.
- וַהֲצִיק֖וֹתִיvahatzikotiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will bring distress
All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,
- וְהַמְּצִיקִ֖יםvehametzikimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and those bring distress
But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
- הַמֵּצִ֔יקhametzikthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: the oppressor
- הַמֵּצִֽיק׃hametzikthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: the oppressor
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.’
- יָצִ֧יקוּyatzikuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will press
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.