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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 MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:21 - yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:9 - Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:21 - for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:29 - But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:17 - They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:19 - For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:24 - But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:21 - A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:33 - I have told you these things, that in me you may have shalom. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:10 - and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Par`oh, king of Mitzrayim. He made him governor over Mitzrayim and all his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:11 - Now a famine came over all the land of Mitzrayim and Kana`an, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:19 - They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Yehudim only.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:22 - confirming the souls of the talmidim, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:23 - except that the Ruach HaKodesh testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:9 - oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, on the Yehudi first, and also on the Yevanit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 5:3 - Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 8:35

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:35 - Who shall separate us from the love of Messiah? Could oppression, or anguish, 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 - rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:28 - But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:4 - who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:8 - For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much 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 affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 4:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:17 - For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 6:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 6:4 - but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:4 - Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 8:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:2 - how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 8:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:13 - For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 3:13 - Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:17 - but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 4:14 - However you did well that you had fellowship with my affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:24 - Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Messiah in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:6 - You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Ruach HaKodesh,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:3 - that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:7 - for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Th 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 1:4 - so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Th 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 1:6 - Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:33 - partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:27 - Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:9 - I Yochanan, your brother and partner with you in oppression, kingdom, and perseverance in Messiah Yeshua, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony of Yeshua the Messiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:9 - "I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Yehudim, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Hasatan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:10 - Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:22 - Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 7:14 - I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.
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