Genesis 42:21
And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
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Anguish
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2 Corinthians 2:4
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
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צָרָה
tsârâh · tsaw-raw'
5 times translated as this KJV form73 total Strong's occurrences
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival
Strong's KJV usage: adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 42:21Strong's last: Jeremiah 50:43
Open full H6869 profile →צוֹק
tsôwq · tsoke
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a strait, i.e. (figuratively) distress
Strong's KJV usage: anguish, × troublous.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 1:27Strong's last: Isaiah 30:6
Open full H6695 profile →θλῖψις
thlîpsis · thlip'-sis
1 times translated as this KJV form46 total Strong's occurrences
pressure (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--afflicted(-tion), anguish, burdened, persecution, tribulation, trouble.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 16:21Strong's last: John 16:21
Open full G2347 profile →στενοχωρία
stenochōría · sten-okh-o-ree'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
narrowness of room, i.e. (figuratively) calamity
Strong's KJV usage: :--anguish, distress.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Romans 2:9Strong's last: Romans 2:9
Open full G4730 profile →συνοχή
synochḗ · soon-okh-ay'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
restraint, i.e. (figuratively) anxiety
Strong's KJV usage: :--anguish, distress.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 2:4Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 2:4
Open full G4928 profile →חוּל
chûwl · khool
1 times translated as this KJV form61 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to twist or whirl (in a circular or spiral manner), i.e. (specifically) to dance, to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) or fear; figuratively, to wait, to pervert
Strong's KJV usage: bear, (make to) bring forth, (make to) calve, dance, drive away, fall grievously (with pain), fear, form, great, grieve, (be) grievous, hope, look, make, be in pain, be much (sore) pained, rest, shake, shapen, (be) sorrow(-ful), stay, tarry, travail (with pain), tremble, trust, wait carefully (patiently), be wounded.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 2:25Strong's last: Deuteronomy 2:25
Open full H2342 profile →מָצוֹק
mâtsôwq · maw-tsoke'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a narrow place, i.e. (abstractly and figuratively) confinement or disability
Strong's KJV usage: anguish, distress, straitness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 119:143Strong's last: Psalms 119:143
Open full H4689 profile →מְצוּקָה
mᵉtsûwqâh · mets-oo-kaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
narrowness, i.e. (figuratively) trouble
Strong's KJV usage: anguish, distress.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 15:24Strong's last: Job 15:24
Open full H4691 profile →צַר
tsar · tsar
1 times translated as this KJV form103 total Strong's occurrences
narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
Strong's KJV usage: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 7:11Strong's last: Job 7:11
Open full H6862 profile →קֹצֶר
qôtser · ko'-tser
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
shortness (of spirit), i.e. impatience
Strong's KJV usage: anguish.
Strong's first: Exodus 6:9Strong's last: Exodus 6:9
Open full H7115 profile →שָׁבָץ
shâbâts · shaw-bawts'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
entanglement, i.e. (figuratively) perplexity
Strong's KJV usage: anguish.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 1:9Strong's last: 2 Samuel 1:9
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H6869
And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
H7115
And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
H2342
This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
H7661
He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.
H6862
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
H4691
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
H4689
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
H6695
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
H6695
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
H6695
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
H6869
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
H6869
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
H6869
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
H6869
The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
G2347
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
G4730
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
G4928
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
English meaning and historical usage.
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anguish
AN'GUISH, noun [Latin angustia, narrowness, from pressure. See Anger.]
Extreme pain, either of body or mind. As bodily pain, it may differ from agony, which is such distress of the whole body as to cause contortion, whereas anguish may be a local pain as of an ulcer, or gout. But anguish and agony are nearly synonymous. As pain of the mind, it signifies any keen distress from sorrow, remorse, despair and kindred passions.
And they hearkened not to Moses, for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Exodus 6:9.
AN'GUISH, verb transitive To distress with extreme pain or grief.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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