Deuteronomy 28:53
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
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Straitness
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Jeremiah 19:9
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
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מָצוֹק
mâtsôwq · maw-tsoke'
4 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.
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Strong's first: Deuteronomy 28:53Strong's last: Jeremiah 19:9
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mûwtsaq · moo-tsak'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
narrowness; figuratively, distress
Strong's KJV usage: anguish, is straitened, straitness.
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Strong's first: Job 36:16Strong's last: Job 36:16
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H4164
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
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straitness
STRAITNESS, noun
1. Narrowness; as the straitness of a place; straitness of mind; straitness of circumstances.
2. Strictness; rigor; as the straitness of a mans proceedings.
3. Distress; difficulty; pressure from necessity of any kind, particularly from poverty.
4. Want; scarcity; or rather narrowness; as the straitness of the conveniences of life.
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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