H4689 - מָצוֹק (mâtsôwq)

H4689 מָצוֹק (mâtsôwq) maw-tsoke'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

distress

Strong's Definition

a narrow place, i.e. (abstractly and figuratively) confinement or disability

Derivation: from H6693 (צוּק);

KJV Usage: anguish, distress, straitness.

TWOT Reference: 1895d

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) straitness, straits, distress, stress, anguish

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G318 G2347

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

straitness, straits, distress, stress, anguish

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מָצוֹק mâtsôq BDB Definition: 1) straitness, straits, distress, stress, anguish Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H6693 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1895d Total KJV Occurrences: 6

Bible Occurrences (6)

28:53 28:55 28:57

22:2

119:143

19:9

Deuteronomy 28:53

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 28:55

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.

Deuteronomy 28:57

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.

1 Samuel 22:2

And all who were distressed [or] indebted...... or discontented... rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.

Jeremiah 19:9

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.