matsok · distress, straits

What it means

matsok (מָצוֹק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “distress, straits”.

Distress: a narrow place, a situation one cannot get out of.

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. A tight spot with no way out.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• distress ×5
• straits ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• Psalms×1
• 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.

• 1 Samuel 22:2

  There gathered to him every man in distress, every man who had a creditor, and every man bitter of soul, and he became commander over them; and there were with him about four hundred men.

• Psalms 119:143

  Distress and straits have found me; your commandments are my delight.

• 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.’