θλῖψις thlipsis

Greek word for “pressure” · Strong’s G2347 · used 45 times in 43 verses

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Meaning

θλίψις (LTr., θλῖψις), -εως, ἡ;

How it is translated

Glosses given for thlipsis in context, with how often each is used:

• tribulation 27
• tribulations 10
• affliction 8

Where it is used

Also in 3 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 24 (3), Revelation 2 (3), Mark 13 (2), John 16 (2), Acts 7 (2), 2 Corinthians 1 (2), 2 Corinthians 8 (2), 1 Thessalonians 3 (2), 2 Thessalonians 1 (2), Matthew 13 (1)

Forms

• θλῖψιν 10
• θλίψεως 9
• θλίψει 9
• θλῖψις 7
• θλίψεσιν 5
• θλίψεων 3
• θλίψεις 1
• θλίψεσίν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with thlipsis more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• διωγμός diōgmos “persecution” 4
• στενοχωρία stenochōria “hardship” 3
• ὑπομονή hupomonē “perseverance” 4
• ὑπέρ huper “above/for” 5
• χαρά chara “joy” 4
• πολύς polus “much” 6
• κατεργάζομαι katergazomai “to workout/produce” 3
• φέγγος phengos “brightness” 2
• ἑαυτοῦ heautou “themself” 5
• λόγος logos “word” 5
• κόσμος kosmos “world” 4
• πτωχεία ptōcheia “poverty” 2

Key verses

The verses using thlipsis that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 13:21 — Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
• John 16:33 — These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
• Acts 14:22 — Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
• Romans 5:3 — And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
• Romans 8:35 — Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
• Romans 12:12 — Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
• 2 Corinthians 4:17 — For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
• 2 Corinthians 6:4 — But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
• James 1:27 — Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the…
• Revelation 1:9 — I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the…
• Revelation 2:10 — Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation…
• Revelation 7:14 — And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.