Strong's #2347: thlipsis (pronounced thlip'-sis)

from 2346; pressure (literally or figuratively):--afflicted(-tion), anguish, burdened, persecution, tribulation, trouble.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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thlipsis

1) a pressing, pressing together, pressure

2) metaphorically oppression, affliction, tribulation, distress, straits

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G2346

Citing in TDNT: 3:139, 334

Usage:

This word is used 45 times:

 

Matthew 13:21: "but endureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth"
Matthew 24:9: "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you:"
Matthew 24:21: "then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since"
Matthew 24:29: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun"
Mark 4:17: "so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake,"
Mark 13:19: "in those days shall be affliction, such as was not"
Mark 13:24: "days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and"
John 16:21: "no more the anguish, for joy that a man"
John 16:33: "the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome"
Acts 7:10: "out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor"
Acts 7:11: "Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found"
Acts 11:19: "upon the persecution that arose about Stephen traveled"
Acts 14:22: "must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom"
Acts 20:23: "saying that bonds and afflictions abide me."
Romans 2:9: " Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth"
Romans 5:3: "so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation"
Romans 5:3: "also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;"
Romans 8:35: "the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution,"
Romans 12:12: "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;"
1 Corinthians 7:28: "Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I"
2 Corinthians 1:4: "in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them"
2 Corinthians 1:4: "them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith"
2 Corinthians 1:8: "have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in"
2 Corinthians 2:4: "For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote"
2 Corinthians 4:17: "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding"
2 Corinthians 6:4: "much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,"
2 Corinthians 7:4: "in all our tribulation."
2 Corinthians 8:2: "in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy"
2 Corinthians 8:13: "be eased, and ye burdened:"
Ephesians 3:13: "not at my tribulations for you, which is"
Philippians 1:16: "not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:"
Philippians 4:14: "done, that ye did communicate with my affliction."
Colossians 1:24: "fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh"
1 Thessalonians 1:6: "word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:"
1 Thessalonians 3:3: "should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that"
1 Thessalonians 3:7: "you in all our affliction and distress by"
2 Thessalonians 1:4: "your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:"
2 Thessalonians 1:6: "with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;"
Hebrews 10:33: "whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became"
James 1:27: "widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from"
Revelation 1:9: "and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom"
Revelation 2:9: "thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art"
Revelation 2:10: "ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days; be thou faithful"
Revelation 2:22: "her into great tribulation, except they repent of their"
Revelation 7:14: "they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes,"