צוּק

tsuqto pressHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb11 occurrences5 books10 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to compress, i.e. (figuratively) oppress, distress
Traditional renderings: constrain, distress, lie sore, (op-) press(-or), straiten.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders צוּק:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

11 total
  1. Deuteronomy 28:53יָצִ֥יק · will inflict
    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.
  2. Deuteronomy 28:55יָצִ֥יק · will inflict
    …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.
  3. Deuteronomy 28:57יָצִ֥יק · will inflict
    …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.
  4. Judges 14:17הֱצִיקַ֔תְהוּ · she had pressed him so much
    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.
  5. Judges 16:16הֵצִ֨יקָה · she had pressed
    Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,
  6. Job 32:18הֱ֝צִיקַ֗תְנִי · compels me
    For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
  7. Isaiah 29:2וַהֲצִיק֖וֹתִי · And I will constrain
    And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.
  8. Isaiah 29:7וְהַמְּצִיקִ֖ים · and attacking
    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,
  9. Isaiah 51:13הַמֵּצִ֔יק · of the oppressor; הַמֵּצִֽיק׃ · of the oppressor
    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?
  10. Jeremiah 19:9יָצִ֧יקוּ · inflicted
    I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’