צוֹק
tsok · distress
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6695 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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tsok (צוֹק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “distress”.
Anguish; a tight place one cannot get out of.
How to say it
tsok
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
- A tight situation, no way out.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- anguish ×3
- distress ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Proverbs 1:27
when your dread comes like a storm, and your calamity arrives like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
- Isaiah 8:22
And he will look to the earth, and look, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and into thick darkness he will be thrust.
- Isaiah 30:6
The burden of the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of distress and anguish, where the lioness and the lion are among them, the viper and the flying fiery serpent, they carry on the backs of young donkeys their riches, and on the humps of camels their treasures, to a people that does not profit.
- Daniel 9:25
So know and understand: from the going out of a word to restore and to build Jerusalem until an Anointed One, a Leader, there will be seven weeks; and for sixty and two weeks it will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in the distress of the times.