Strong’s H4712 · Hebrew
מֵצַר
mêtsar · may-tsar'
Origin from קֵבָה (H6896);
Meaning something tight, i.e. (figuratively) trouble
In the King James Version distress, pain, strait.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Psalms 116:3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
- Psalms 118:5I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
- Lamentations 1:3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.