Strong's #6693: tsuwq (pronounced tsook)

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tsûq

1) (Hiphil) to constrain, press, bring into straits, straiten, oppress

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

Deuteronomy 28:53: "and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress"
Deuteronomy 28:55: "he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all"
Deuteronomy 28:57: "in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates."
Judges 14:17: "day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people."
Judges 16:16: "And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul"
Job 32:18: "of matter, the spirit within me constraineth"
Isaiah 29:2: " Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel."
Isaiah 29:7: "even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision."
Isaiah 51:13: "day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy?"
Isaiah 51:13: "if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?"
Jeremiah 19:9: "their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten"