Lexical Definition

‎מָצוֹק‎ mâtsôwq (maw-tsoke') distress ^H:N-M
from ‎צוּק‎

anguish, distress, straitness.

• a narrow place, i.e. (abstractly and figuratively) confinement or disability

1) straitness, straits, distress, stress, anguish

See Greek: ἀνάγκη · θλῖψις

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎מָצוֺק‎ noun [masculine] straitness, straits, stress; — always absolute ‎׳‎‎מ‎; — ‎׳‎‎כָּלאִֿישׁ מ‎ 1Sam 22:2 every man of straits (in straits); ‎׳‎‎בְּמָצוֺר וּבְמ‎ Deut 28:53; Deut 28:55; Deut 28:57; Jer 19:9 (all of national straits); ‎מְצָאוּנִי‎ ‎׳‎‎צַרוּֿמ‎ Ps 119:143 perhaps read ‎מָצוֺק‎ also Ps 32:6, for ‎מצא רק‎, compare Du Br.

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