tsuk · distress, press hard

What it means

tsuk (צוּק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “distress, press hard”.

Press hard, distress, put in straits.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To put someone in a tight spot.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• will distress ×5
• oppressor ×2
• she pressed ×2
• presses me ×1
• those who distress her ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×3
• Judges×2
• Job×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×1

• Deuteronomy 28:53

  And you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom YHWH your Elohim has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you.

• Deuteronomy 28:55

  so as not to give to any one of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.

• Deuteronomy 28:57

  and on her afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and on her children whom she bears; for she will eat them for lack of everything in secret, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.

• Judges 14:17

  She wept over him the seven days that they had the feast; and it happened on the seventh day that he explained it to her, because she pressed him hard; and she explained the riddle to the sons of her people.

• Judges 16:16

  And it happened, when she pressed him with her words every day and urged him, that his soul grew impatient to the point of death.

• Job 32:18

  For I am full of words; the spirit of my belly presses me.

• Isaiah 29:2

  And I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and moaning, and she will be to me like an Ariel.

• Isaiah 29:7

  And like a dream, a vision of the night, will be the multitude of all the nations that wage war against Ariel, and all who wage war against her and her fortress, and those who distress her.

• Isaiah 51:13

  And you have forgotten YHWH your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and founds the earth, and you dread continually, all the day, before the fury of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?

• Jeremiah 19:9

  And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each one will eat the flesh of his neighbor, in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies will distress them, and those who seek their life.’

And 1 more times.