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# מְצוּקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4691

**narrowness** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

narrowness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4691/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְצוּקָה: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4691/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id.;—abs. צַר וּמ׳ Jb 15:24; יוֹם צָרָה וּמ׳ Zp 1:15; pl. sf., of י׳ delivering מִמְּצוּקוֹתַי ψ 25:17, מִמְּצוּקוֹתֵיהֶם etc., 107:6, 13, 19, 28.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: troubles (5); trouble (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 25:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.25.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.25.17/#tree)

צָר֣וֹת לְבָבִ֣י הִרְחִ֑יבוּ מִ֝מְּצֽוּקוֹתַ֗י הוֹצִיאֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* the.distresses my.heart my they.have.made.wide from troubles my deliver me

*JPS 1917:* The troubles of my heart are enlarged; O bring Thou me out of my distresses.

[Job 15:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.24/#tree)

יְֽ֭בַעֲתֻהוּ צַ֣ר וּמְצוּקָ֑ה תִּ֝תְקְפֵ֗הוּ כְּמֶ֤לֶךְ ׀ עָתִ֬יד לַכִּידֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* they terrify.him distress and trouble it overpowers.him like a.king ready for (the) battle

*JPS 1917:* Distress and anguish overwhelm him; they prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4691.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4691/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).