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# צוּקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6695

**pressure** — used 3 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

pressure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6695/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צוּקָה: n.f. pressure, distress [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6695/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. pressure, distress;—national Is 8:22 (+ צָרָה), cf. אֶרֶץ צָרָה וְצ׳ 30:6; personal צָרָה וְצ׳ Pr 1:27.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: distress (2); of distress (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 8:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.22/#tree)

וְאֶל־אֶ֖רֶץ יַבִּ֑יט וְהִנֵּ֨ה צָרָ֤ה וַחֲשֵׁכָה֙ מְע֣וּף צוּקָ֔ה וַאֲפֵלָ֖ה מְנֻדָּֽח׃

*Word for word:* and to \[the\].earth it.will.look and there! trouble and darkness gloom of.distress and darkness \[it.is\].thrust.out

*JPS 1917:* or look unto the earth, behold distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and outspread thick darkness.

[Proverbs 1:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.27/#tree)

בְּבֹ֤א כְשׁוֹאָ֨ה ׀ פַּחְדְּכֶ֗ם וְֽ֭אֵידְכֶם כְּסוּפָ֣ה יֶאֱתֶ֑ה בְּבֹ֥א עֲ֝לֵיכֶ֗ם צָרָ֥ה וְצוּקָֽה׃

*Word for word:* when comes like a.storm dread your and calamity your like a.storm-wind it.will.arrive when comes on you trouble and distress

*JPS 1917:* When your dread cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; when trouble and distress come upon you.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6695/): 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).