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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 45 times in 43 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:21 - and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:9 - then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:21 - for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:29 - 'And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:17 - and have not root in themselves, but are temporary; afterward tribulation or persecution having come because of the word, immediately they are stumbled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:19 - for those days shall be tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the creation that God created, till now, and may not be;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:24 - 'But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:21 - 'The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:33 - these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:10 - and did deliver him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he did set him -- governor over Egypt and all his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:11 - 'And there came a dearth upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:19 - Those, indeed, therefore, having been scattered abroad, from the tribulation that came after Stephen, went through unto Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except to Jews only;

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:22 - confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:23 - save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:9 - tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 5:3 - And not only so, but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 8:35

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:35 - Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:12 - in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:28 - But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:4 - who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:8 - For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 2:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:4 - for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 4:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:17 - for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 6:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 6:4 - but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:4 - great is my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 8:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:2 - because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 8:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:13 - for not that for others release, and ye pressured, do I speak,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 3:13 - wherefore, I ask you not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:16 - the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 4:14 - but ye did well, having communicated with my tribulation;

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:24 - I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:6 - and ye -- ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:3 - that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:7 - because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our tribulation and necessity, through your faith,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Th 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 1:4 - so that we ourselves do glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye bear;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Th 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 1:6 - since it is a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you -- trouble,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:33 - partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:27 - religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:9 - I, John, who also am your brother, and fellow-partner in the tribulation, and in the reign and endurance, of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:9 - I have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty -- yet thou art rich -- and the evil-speaking of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of the Adversary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:10 - 'Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:22 - lo, I will cast her into a couch, and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation -- if they may not repent of their works,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 7:14 - and I have said to him, 'Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, 'These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;
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