מוּצַק
mutsak · distress, narrowness
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4164 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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mutsak (מוּצַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “distress, narrowness”.
Narrowness, a tight place; distress.
How to say it
mu·tsak
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
- Lack of room; a tight spot.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- constraint ×2
- was in anguish ×1
Where it appears
- Job 36:16
And he also incites you to come out from the mouth of distress into a broad place, with no constraint beneath it, and what is set on your table is full of fatness.
- Job 37:10
By the breath of El ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is held in constraint.
- Isaiah 9:1
But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. As at the former time he treated with contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, so in the latter time he will make it glorious, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.