Strong's #4712: metsar (pronounced may-tsar')

from 6896; something tight, i.e. (figuratively) trouble:--distress, pain, strait.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mêtsar

1) straits, distress

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H6896

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

Psalms 116:3: "The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me: I found trouble"
Psalms 118:5: "I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place."
Lamentations 1:3: "rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits."