Strong's Hebrew · H6693
צוּק
tsûwq · tsook
constrain, distress, lie sore, (op-) press(-or), straiten.
Definition
to compress, i.e. (figuratively) oppress, distress
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 11 times in Scripture
“For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.”
“Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.”
“Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,”
“the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.”
“refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.”
“All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,”
“She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.”
“But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?”
“And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).