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# מָצוֹק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4689

**straitness** — used 6 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

straitness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4689/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָצוֹק²: straitness, straits, stress [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4689/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] straitness, straits, stress;—always abs. מ׳;—כָּל־אִישׁ מ׳ 1 S 22:2 every man of straits (in straits); בְּמָצוֹר וּבְמ׳ Dt 28:53, 55, 57; Je 19:9 (all of national straits); צַר־וּמ׳ מְצָאוּנִי ψ 119:143; perhaps read מָצוֹק also 32:6, for מצא רק, cf. Du Br.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: distress (5); of distress (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:143](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.143/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.143/#tree)

צַר־וּמָצ֥וֹק מְצָא֑וּנִי מִ֝צְוֺתֶ֗יךָ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָֽי׃

*Word for word:* anxiety and distress they have.found.me commandments your delight(s) \[are\].my

*JPS 1917:* Trouble and anguish have overtaken me; yet Thy commandments are my delight.

[Deuteronomy 28:53](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.53/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.53/#tree)

וְאָכַלְתָּ֣ פְרִֽי־בִטְנְךָ֗ בְּשַׂ֤ר בָּנֶ֙יךָ֙ וּבְנֹתֶ֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָֽתַן־לְךָ֖ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּמָצוֹר֙ וּבְמָצ֔וֹק אֲשֶׁר־יָצִ֥יק לְךָ֖ אֹיְבֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.eat the.fruit your.womb your the.flesh your.sons your and daughters your whom he.has.given to you Yahweh God your in.\[the\] siege and in.\[the\] distress which he.will.bring.distress to you enemy your

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom the LORD thy God hath given thee; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall straiten thee.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4689/): 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).