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Strong's G2347 θλῖψις (thlipsis)

Thlipsis means “anguish” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2347 — chuc (“pity”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2347
Language Greek
Linked Usages 161
Books 46

Strong's G2347 Quick Answer

Strong's G2347 θλίψις (thlipsis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. thlipsis (thlip'-sis) n. 1. pressure {literally or figuratively} It has 161 linked Bible usages across 46 books. Visible English usage signals include tribulation, persecution, anguish, trouble, and afflicted. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
thlipsis (thlip'-sis) n. 1. pressure {literally or figuratively}
Usage
161 linked usages
Books
46 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
tribulation, persecution, anguish, trouble, and afflicted

Meaning and Definition

thlipsis (thlip'-sis) n. 1. pressure {literally or figuratively} [from G2346] KJV: afflicted(-tion), anguish, burdened, persecution, tribulation, trouble Root(s): G2346

Original Word
θλίψις
Transliteration
thlipsis
Derivation
Root: θλίβω R1: 2346
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2347. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

pressure

Usage: θλίψις (LTr., θλῖψις), -εως, ἡ (θλίβω), [in LXX for צָרָה, etc. ;] pressure (Arist.). In LXX and NT metaphorically, tribulation, affliction, distress: Mat.24:9, 21 24:29, Mrk.13:19, 24, Jhn.16:21, Act.7:11 11:19, Rom.12:12, 2Co.1:4 1:8 4:17 6:4 7:4 8:2 8:13, Php.4:14, 2Th.1:6, Jas.1:27, Rev.1:9 2:9, 22 7:14; with ἀνάγκη (which see), 1Th.3:7; στενοχωρία (which from the order of the words would appear to be the stronger term), Rom.2:9 8:35; διωγμός, Mat.13:21, Mrk.4:17, 2Th.1:4; θ. ἔχω, Jhn.16:33, 1Co.7:23, Rev.2:10;

ἔρχεσθαι ἐπί, Act.7:11; ἐν θλίψει 1Th.1:6; pl., Act.7:10 14:22 20:28, Rom.5:3, Eph.3:13, 1Th.3:3, Heb.10:33; τ. Χριστοῦ, Col.1:24; θ. τῆς καρδίας, 2Co.2:4; θ. ἐγείρειν, Php.1:17.† SYN.: ἀνάγκη, διωγμός, στενοχωρία (see supr., and cf. Tr., Syn, iv; Lft., Notes, 45) (AS)

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How Strong's G2347 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render thlipsis, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

tribulation Matthew 24:21 persecution Matthew 13:21 anguish John 16:21 trouble 1 Corinthians 7:28 afflicted Matthew 24:9

How Strong's G2347 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 96 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2347 (θλίψις) appears 126 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2347 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2347 in the New Testament

43 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 13:21 KJV

Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

Matthew 24:9 KJV

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

Matthew 24:21 KJV

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Strong's G2347 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

96 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 35:3 Septuagint / Brenton

And let us rise and go up to Bethel, and let us there make an altar to God who hearkened to me in the day of calamity, who was with me, and preserved me throughout in the journey, by which I went.

Genesis 42:21 Septuagint / Brenton

And each said to his brother, Yes, indeed, for we are in fault concerning our brother, when we disregarded the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we hearkened not to him; and therefore has this affliction come upon us.

Exodus 4:31 Septuagint / Brenton

And the people believed and rejoiced, because God visited the children of Israel, and because he saw their affliction: and the people bowed and worshiped.

Strong's G2347 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

19 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Strong's G2347 in 1 Enoch

3 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2347.

Genesis 35:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let us rise and go up to Bethel, and let us there make an altar to God who hearkened to me in the day of calamity, who was with me, and preserved me throughout in the journey, by which I went.
Genesis 42:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And each said to his brother, Yes, indeed, for we are in fault concerning our brother, when we disregarded the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we hearkened not to him; and therefore has this affliction come upon us.
Exodus 4:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people believed and rejoiced, because God visited the children of Israel, and because he saw their affliction: and the people bowed and worshiped.
Deuteronomy 4:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there ye shall seek the Lord your God, and ye shall find him whenever ye shall seek him with all your heart, and with all your soul in your affliction.
Deuteronomy 28:53 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, all that he has given thee, in thy straitness and thy affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee.
Deuteronomy 28:55 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
so as not to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in thy straitness, and in thy affliction, with which thine enemies shall afflict thee in all thy cities.
Deuteronomy 28:57 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the want of all things, secretly in thy straitness, and in thy affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee in thy cities.
Deuteronomy 31:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn my face away from them, and they shall be devoured; and many evils and afflictions shall come upon them; and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.
Judges 10:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Go, and cry to the gods whom ye have chosen to yourselves, and let them save you in the time of your affliction.
1 Kingdoms 1:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the Lord gave her no child in her affliction, and according to the despondency of her affliction; and she was dispirited on this account, that the Lord shut up her womb so as not to give her a child.
1 Kingdoms 10:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye have this day rejected God, who is himself your Deliverer out of all your evils and afflictions; and ye said, Nay, but thou shalt set a king over us: and now stand before the Lord according to your tribes, and according to your families.
1 Kingdoms 24:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if anyone should find his enemy in distress, and should send him forth in a good way, then the Lord will reward him good, as thou hast done this day.
1 Kingdoms 26:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And, behold, as thy life has been precious this very day in my eyes, so let my life be precious before the Lord, and may he protect me, and deliver me out of all affliction.
2 Kingdoms 4:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all affliction;
2 Kingdoms 22:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The days of my affliction prevented me; But the Lord was my stay.
3 Kingdoms 1:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king swore, and said, As the Lord lives who redeemed my soul out of all affliction,
3 Kingdoms 22:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and tell Joash the king’s son to put this fellow in prison, and to feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction until I return in peace.
4 Kingdoms 13:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jehoahaz besought the Lord, and the Lord hearkened to him, for he saw the affliction of Israel, because the king of Syria afflicted them.
4 Kingdoms 19:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of tribulation, and rebuke, and provocation: for the children are come to the travail-pangs, but the mother has no strength.
2 Chronicles 15:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And nation shall fight against nation, and city against city; for God has confounded them with every kind of affliction.
2 Chronicles 18:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and ye shall say, Thus said the king, Put this fellow into the prison house, and let him eat the bread of affliction, and drink the water of affliction, until I return in peace.
2 Chronicles 20:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If there should come upon us evils, sword, judgment, pestilence, famine, we will stand before this house, and before thee (for thy name is upon this house), and we will cry to thee because of the affliction, and thou shalt hear, and deliver.
Nehemiah 9:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
Nehemiah 9:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Job 15:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: He shall fall as a captain in the first rank.
Psalms 4:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When I called upon him, the God of my righteousness heard me: Thou hast made room for me in tribulation; Pity me, and hearken to my prayer.
Psalms 9:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, A seasonable help, in affliction.
Psalms 9:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? Why dost thou overlook us in times of need, in affliction?
Psalms 19:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob defend thee.
Psalms 21:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Stand not aloof from me; for affliction is near; For there is no helper.
Psalms 24:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The afflictions of my heart have been multiplied; Deliver me from my distresses.
Psalms 24:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Deliver Israel, O God, Out of all his afflictions.
Psalms 31:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou art my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; My joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause.
Psalms 33:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This poor man cried, and the Lord hearkened to him, And delivered him out of all his afflictions.
Psalms 33:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And delivered them out of all their afflictions.
Psalms 33:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: But out of them all the Lord will deliver them.
Psalms 36:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord; And he is their defender in the time of affliction.
Psalms 43:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore turnest thou thy face away, And forgettest our poverty and our affliction?
Psalms 45:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
God is our refuge and strength, A help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us.
Psalms 49:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And call upon me in the day of affliction; And I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.
Psalms 53:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou hast delivered me out of all affliction, And mine eye has seen my desire upon mine enemies.
Psalms 54:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the sinner: For they brought iniquity against me, And were wrathfully angry with me.
Psalms 58:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But I will sing to thy strength, And in the morning will I exult in thy mercy; For thou hast been my supporter, And my refuge in the day of mine affliction.
Psalms 59:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Give us help from trouble: For vain is the deliverance of man.
Psalms 65:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou broughtest us into the snare; Thou laidest afflictions on our back.
Psalms 65:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Which my lips framed, And my mouth uttered in my affliction.
Psalms 70:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What afflictions many and sore hast thou shown me! Yet thou didst turn and quicken me, And broughtest me again from the depths of the earth.
Psalms 76:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In the day of mine affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; Even with my hands by night before him, and I was not deceived; My soul refused to be comforted.
Psalms 77:49 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He sent out against them the fury of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and affliction, A message by evil angels.
Psalms 80:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: I proved thee at the water of Strife. Pause.
Psalms 85:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In the day of my trouble I cried to thee: for thou didst hear me.
Psalms 90:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall call upon me, and I will hearken to him: I am with him in affliction; And I will deliver him, and glorify him.
Psalms 106:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Again they become few, and are brought low, By the pressure of evils and pain.
Psalms 107:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Give us help from tribulation: For vain is the help of man.
Psalms 114:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The pangs of death compassed me; The dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow.
Psalms 117:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I called on the Lord out of affliction: And he hearkened to me, so as to bring me into a wide place.
Psalms 118:143 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Afflictions and distresses found me: But thy commandments were my meditation.
Psalms 137:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Though I should walk in the midst of affliction, thou wilt quicken me; Thou hast stretched forth thy hands against the wrath of mine enemies, And thy right hand has saved me.
Psalms 141:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will pour out before him my supplication: I will declare before him mine affliction.
Psalms 142:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt quicken me, O Lord, for thy name’s sake; In thy righteousness thou shalt bring my soul out of affliction.
Proverbs 1:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Yea when dismay suddenly comes upon you, And your overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; And when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, Or when ruin shall come upon you.
Proverbs 21:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He that keeps his mouth and his tongue Keeps his soul from trouble.
Proverbs 24:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall be defiled in the evil day, And in the day of affliction, until he be utterly consumed.
Isaiah 8:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and anguish, and darkness so that one cannot see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a time.
Isaiah 10:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And what will they do in the day of visitation? for affliction shall come to you from afar: and to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory,
Isaiah 10:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God will stir up enemies against them, according to the stroke of Midian in the place of affliction: and his wrath shall be by the way of the sea, even to the way that leads to Egypt.
Isaiah 26:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lord, in affliction I remembered thee; thy chastening was to us with small affliction.
Isaiah 28:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Expect thou affliction on affliction, hope upon hope: yet a little, and yet a little,
Isaiah 28:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope, yet a little, and yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed and shall be in danger, and shall be taken.
Isaiah 30:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The vision of the quadrupeds in the desert. In affliction and distress, where are the lion and lion’s whelp, thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps, there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.
Isaiah 30:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And though the Lord shall give you the bread of affliction and scant water, yet they that cause thee to err shall no more at all draw nigh to thee; for thine eyes shall see those that cause thee to err,
Isaiah 33:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have trusted in thee: the seed of the rebellious is gone to destruction, but our deliverance was in a time of affliction.
Isaiah 37:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Today is a day of affliction, and reproach, and rebuke, and anger: for the pangs are come upon the travailing woman, but she has not strength to bring forth.
Isaiah 57:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When thou criest out, let them deliver thee in thine affliction: for all these the wind shall take, and the tempest shall carry them away: but they that cleave to me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.
Isaiah 63:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
out of all their affliction: not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but himself saved them, because he loved them and spared them: he himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up all the days of old.
Isaiah 65:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
which shall be blessed on the earth; for they shall bless the true God: and they that swear upon the earth shall swear by the true God; for they shall forget the former affliction, and it shall not come into their mind.
Jeremiah 6:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
We have heard the report of them: our hands are weakened: anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah 10:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
will overthrow the inhabitants of this land with affliction, that thy plague may be discovered.
Jeremiah 11:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord called thy name a fair olive tree, of a goodly shade in appearance, at the noise of its being lopped, fire was kindled against it; great is the affliction coming upon thee: her branches are become good for nothing.
Jeremiah 15:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before thee in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for their good against the enemy.
Jeremiah 27:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.
Ezekiel 12:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Son of man, eat thy bread with sorrow, and drink thy water with torment and affliction.
Ezekiel 18:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if his father grievously afflict, or plunder, he has wrought enmity in the midst of my people, and shall die in his iniquity.
Daniel 12:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And at that time Michael the great prince shall stand up, that stands over the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of tribulation, such tribulation as has not been from the time that there was a nation on the earth until that time: at that time thy people shall be delivered, even everyone that is written in the book.
Hosea 5:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will go and return to my place, until they are brought to nought, and then shall they seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me early, saying,
Hosea 7:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whenever they shall go, I will cast my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumor of their coming affliction.
Obadiah 1:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of strangers; nor shouldest thou have rejoiced against the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have boasted in the day of their affliction.
Obadiah 1:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Neither shouldest thou have stood at the opening of their passages, to destroy utterly those of them that were escaping; neither shouldest thou have shut up his fugitives in the day of affliction.
Jonah 2:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he hearkened to me, Even to my cry out of the belly of hell: thou heardest my voice.
Micah 2:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Jacob shall be completely gathered with all his people: I will surely receive the remnant of Israel; I will cause them to return together, as sheep in trouble, as a flock in the midst of their fold: they shall rush forth from among men through the breach made before them:
Nahum 1:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord is good to them that wait on him in the day of affliction; and he knows them that reverence him.
Nahum 1:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make a complete end: he will not take vengeance by affliction twice at the same time.
Nahum 2:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
It is all over with him, he has been removed, one who has been delivered from affliction has come up panting into thy presence, watch the way, strengthen thy loins, be very valiant in thy strength.
Habakkuk 3:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I watched, and my belly trembled At the sound of the prayer of my lips, And trembling entered into my bones, And my frame was troubled within me; I will rest in the day of affliction, From going up to the people of my sojourning.
Zephaniah 1:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A mighty day of wrath is that day, a day of affliction and distress, a day of desolation and destruction, a day of gloominess and darkness, a day of cloud and vapor,
Zechariah 8:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For before those days the wages of men could not be profitable, and there could be no hire of cattle, and there could be no peace by reason of the affliction to him that went out or to him that came in: for I would have let loose all men, every one against his neighbor.
Matthew 13:21 New Testament, KJV
Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Matthew 24:9 New Testament, KJV
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Matthew 24:21 New Testament, KJV
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Matthew 24:29 New Testament, KJV
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Mark 4:17 New Testament, KJV
And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
Mark 13:19 New Testament, KJV
For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
Mark 13:24 New Testament, KJV
But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
John 16:21 New Testament, KJV
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
John 16:33 New Testament, KJV
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Acts 7:10 New Testament, KJV
And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
Acts 7:11 New Testament, KJV
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
Acts 11:19 New Testament, KJV
Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
Acts 14:22 New Testament, KJV
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Acts 20:23 New Testament, KJV
Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Romans 2:9 New Testament, KJV
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
Romans 5:3 New Testament, KJV
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Romans 8:35 New Testament, KJV
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 12:12 New Testament, KJV
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
1 Corinthians 7:28 New Testament, KJV
But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
2 Corinthians 1:4 New Testament, KJV
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
2 Corinthians 1:8 New Testament, KJV
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
2 Corinthians 2:4 New Testament, KJV
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
2 Corinthians 4:17 New Testament, KJV
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
2 Corinthians 6:4 New Testament, KJV
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2347, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 35 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 13 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Obadiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 4 usages, New Testament
Mark 3 usages, New Testament
John 2 usages, New Testament
Acts 5 usages, New Testament
Romans 4 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
2 Corinthians 8 usages, New Testament
Ephesians 1 usage, New Testament
Philippians 2 usages, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 3 usages, New Testament
2 Thessalonians 2 usages, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
James 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 5 usages, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 10 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 3 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G2347 FAQ

What does thlipsis (θλῖψις) mean?

Thlipsis (Strong's G2347) is a Greek word most simply glossed "anguish". thlipsis (thlip'-sis) n. 1. pressure {literally or figuratively}

How many times is thlipsis (θλῖψις) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 161 linked usages for Strong's G2347 across 46 books.

Where can I study thlipsis (θλῖψις) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2347 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate thlipsis (θλῖψις)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as tribulation, persecution, anguish, trouble, and afflicted. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2347 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 96 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 19 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 3 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G2347, with linked reader references where each row is available.