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Lexicon :: Strong's G2347 - thlipsis

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θλῖψις
Transliteration
thlipsis (Key)
Pronunciation
thlip'-sis
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:139,334

Trench's Synonyms: lv. θλῖψις, στενοχωρία.

Strong’s Definitions

†θλῖψις thlîpsis, thlip'-sis; from G2346; pressure (literally or figuratively):—afflicted(-tion), anguish, burdened, persecution, tribulation, trouble.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 45x

The KJV translates Strong's G2347 in the following manner: tribulation (21x), affliction (17x), trouble (3x), anguish (1x), persecution (1x), burdened (1x), to be afflicted (with G1519) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 45x
The KJV translates Strong's G2347 in the following manner: tribulation (21x), affliction (17x), trouble (3x), anguish (1x), persecution (1x), burdened (1x), to be afflicted (with G1519) (1x).

  1. a pressing, pressing together, pressure

  2. metaph. oppression, affliction, tribulation, distress, straits

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†θλῖψις thlîpsis, thlip'-sis; from G2346; pressure (literally or figuratively):—afflicted(-tion), anguish, burdened, persecution, tribulation, trouble.
STRONGS G2347:
θλῖψις, or θλῖψις (so L Tr) (cf. Winers Grammar, § 6, 1 e.; Lipsius, Grammat. Untersuch., p. 35), θλίψεως, ἡ (θλίβω), properly, a pressing, pressing together, pressure (Strabo, p. 52; Galen); in Biblical and ecclesiastical writings, a Greek metaphor, oppression, affliction, tribulation, distress, straits; Vulg.tribulatio, also pressura (2 Corinthians 1:4b; John 16:(21),33; (Philippians 1:16 (17); and in Colossians 1:24 passio)); (the Sept. for צָרָה, also for צַר, לַחַץ, etc.): Matthew 24:9; Acts 7:11; Acts 11:19; Romans 12:12; 2 Corinthians 1:4, 8; 2 Corinthians 4:17; 2 Corinthians 6:4; 2 Corinthians 7:4; 2 Corinthians 8:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:6; Revelation 1:9; Revelation 2:9, 22; Revelation 7:14; joined with στενοχωρία (cf. Trench, § lv.), Romans 2:9; Romans 8:35 (Deuteronomy 28:53f; Isa. (Isaiah 8:22); Isaiah 30:6); with ἀνάγκη, 1 Thessalonians 3:7; with διωγμός, Matthew 13:21; Mark 4:17; 2 Thessalonians 1:4; of the afflictions of those hard pressed by siege and the calamities of war, Matthew 24:21, 29; Mark 13:19, 24; of the straits of want, 2 Corinthians 8:13; Philippians 4:14 (here others give the word a wider reference); James 1:27; of the distress of a woman in childbirth; John 16:21. θλῖψιν ἔχω (equivalent to θλίβομαι), John 16:33; 1 Corinthians 7:28; Revelation 2:10; θλῖψις ἐπί τινα ἔρχεται, Acts 7:11; ἐν θλίψει, 1 Thessalonians 1:6. plural: Acts 7:10; Acts 14:22; Acts 20:23; Romans 5:3; Ephesians 3:13; 1 Thessalonians 3:3; Hebrews 10:33; τοῦ Χριστοῦ, the afflictions which Christ had to undergo (and which, therefore, his followers must not shrink from), Colossians 1:24 (see ἀνταναπληρόω); θλῖψις τῆς καρδίας (καί συνοχή), anxiety, burden of heart, 2 Corinthians 2:4; θλῖψιν ἐπιφέρειν (L T Tr WH ἐγείρειν, see ἐγείρω, 4 c.) τοῖς δεσμοῖς τίνος, to increase the misery of my imprisonment by causing me anxiety, Philippians 1:16 (17).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
28:53
Isaiah
8:22; 30:6
Matthew
13:21; 24:9; 24:21; 24:29
Mark
4:17; 13:19; 13:24
John
16; 16:21; 16:33
Acts
7:10; 7:11; 7:11; 11:19; 14:22; 20:23
Romans
2:9; 5:3; 8:35; 12:12
1 Corinthians
7:28
2 Corinthians
1:4; 1:4; 1:8; 2:4; 4:17; 6:4; 7:4; 8:2; 8:13
Ephesians
3:13
Philippians
1:16; 1:16; 4:14
Colossians
1:24; 1:24
1 Thessalonians
1:6; 3:3; 3:7
2 Thessalonians
1:4; 1:6
Hebrews
10:33
James
1:27
Revelation
1:9; 2:9; 2:10; 2:22; 7:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2347 matches the Greek θλῖψις (thlipsis),
which occurs 104 times in 96 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 35:3–Psa 81:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:3 - And let us rise and go up to Bæthel, and let us there make an altar to God who hearkened to me in the day of calamity, who was with me, and preserved me throughout in the journey, by which I went.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:21 - And each said to his brother, Yes, indeed, for we are in fault concerning our brother, when we disregarded the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we hearkened not to him; and therefore has this affliction come upon us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:31 - And the people believed and rejoiced, because God visited the children of Israel, and because he saw their affliction: and the people bowed and worshipped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:29 - And there ye shall seek the Lord your God, and ye shall find him whenever ye shall seek him with all [fn]your heart, and with all [fn]your soul in [fn]your affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:53

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:53 - And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy [fn]body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, all that he has given thee, in thy straitness and thy affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:55

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:55 - so as not to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in thy straitness, and in thy affliction, with which thine enemies shall afflict thee in all thy cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:57 - and her [fn]offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the want of all things, secretly in thy straitness, and in thy affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee in thy cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:17 - And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn my face away from them, and they shall be devoured; and many evils and afflictions shall come upon them; and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:14 - Go, and cry to the gods whom ye have chosen to yourselves, and let them save you in the time of your affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:6 - For the Lord gave her no child in her affliction, and according to the despondency of her affliction; and she was dispirited on this account, that the Lord shut up her womb so as not to give her a child.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:19 - And ye have this day rejected God, who is himself your Deliverer out of all your evils and afflictions; and ye said, Nay, but thou shalt set a king over us: and now stand before the Lord according to your tribes, and according to your families.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:19 - (LXX 24:20) And if any one should find his enemy in distress, and should send him forth in a good way, then the Lord will reward him good, as thou hast done this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:24 - And, behold, as thy life has been [fn]precious this very day in my eyes, so let my life be [fn]precious before the Lord, and may he protect me, and [fn]deliver me out of all affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:9 - And David answered Rechab and Baana his brother, the sons of Remmon the Berothite, and said to them, As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all affliction;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:19 - The days of my affliction prevented me; but the Lord was my stay.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:29 - And the king swore, and said, As the Lord lives who redeemed my soul out of all affliction,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:27 - and tell Joas the king's son to put this fellow in prison, and to feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction until I return in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:4 - And Joachaz besought the Lord, and the Lord hearkened to him, for he saw the affliction of Israel, because the king of Syria afflicted them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:3 - And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias, This day is a day of tribulation, and rebuke, and provocation: for the children are come to the travail-pangs, but the mother has no strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:6 - And nation shall fight against nation, and city against city; for God has confounded them with every kind of affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:26 - and ye shall say, Thus said the king, Put this fellow into the prison-house, and let him eat the bread of affliction, and drink the water of affliction, until I return in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:9 - If there should come upon us evils, sword, judgment, pestilence, famine, we will stand before this house, and before thee, (for thy name is upon this house,) and we will cry to thee because of the affliction, and thou shalt hear, and deliver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:27 - Then thou gavest them into the hand of them that afflicted them, and they did afflict them: and they cried to thee in the time of their affliction, and thou didst hear them from thy heaven, and in thy great compassions gavest them deliverers, and didst save them from the hand of them that afflicted them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37 - and its produce is abundant for the kings whom thou didst appoint over us because of our sins; and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, as it pleases them, and we are in great affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:24 - Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:1 - For the end, a Song of David among the Psalms. (LXX 4:2) When I called upon him, the God of my righteousness heard me: thou hast made room for me in tribulation; pity me, and hearken to my prayer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:9 - (LXX 9:10) The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:1 - (LXX 9:22) [fn]Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why dost thou overlook us in times of need, in affliction?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:1 - (LXX 19:1) For the end, a Psalm of David. (19:2) The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:11 - (LXX 21:12) Stand not aloof from me; for affliction is near; for there is no helper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:17 - (LXX 24:17) The afflictions of my heart have been multiplied; deliver me from my distresses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:22 - (LXX 24:22) Deliver Israel, O God, out of all his afflictions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:7 - (LXX 31:7) Thou art my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; my joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:6 - (LXX 33:7) This poor man cried, and the Lord hearkened to him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:17 - (LXX 33:18) and delivered them out of all their afflictions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:19 - (LXX 33:20) Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but out of them all the Lord will deliver them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:39 - (LXX 36:39) But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord; and he is their defender in the time of affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:24 - (LXX 43:25) Wherefore turnest thou thy face away, and forgettest our poverty and our affliction?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:1 - (LXX 45:1) For the end, for the sons of Core; a Psalm concerning secret things. (45:2) God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:15 - (LXX 49:15) And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 54:7 - (LXX 53:9) For thou hast delivered me out of all affliction, and mine eye has seen my desire upon mine enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:3 - (LXX 54:4) because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the sinner: for they brought iniquity against me, and were wrathfully angry with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:16 - (LXX 58:17) But I will sing to thy strength, and in the morning will I exult in thy mercy; for thou hast been my supporter, and my refuge in the day of mine affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 - (LXX 59:13) Give us help from trouble: for vain is the deliverance of man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:11 - (LXX 65:11) Thou broughtest us into the snare; thou laidest afflictions on our back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:14 - (LXX 65:14) which my lips framed, and my mouth uttered in my affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:20 - (LXX 70:20) What afflictions many and sore hast thou shewed me! yet thou didst turn and quicken me, and broughtest me again from the depths of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:2 - (LXX 76:3) In the day of mine affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; even with my hands by night before him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:49 - (LXX 77:49) He sent out against them the fury of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and affliction, a message by evil angels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:7 - (LXX 80:8) Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: I proved thee at the water of [fn]Strife. Pause.

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