1. distress, anguish, straits — A state of severe hardship, distress, or anguish, whether physical or emotional. All three sense clusters represent the same core meaning of matsoq with different grammatical frames: with conjunctive waw + preposition b- ('and-in-distress'), with conjunctive waw alone ('and-anguish'), or bare noun ('in-distress'). Uniformly attested across languages: English 'distress/anguish', Spanish 'angustia/afliccion', Hindi 'sankat (संकट)', Arabic 'diq (ضِيقٍ)/shidda (شِدَّةٌ)/da'iq (ضَائِقٍ)', Korean 'gotong (고통, pain)/gongung (곤궁, poverty)', Swahili 'dhiki/shida (hardship/trouble)'. No semantic distinction warrants separate senses. 6×
AR["ضَائِقٍ","وَ-شِدَّةٌ","وَ-فِي-الضِّيقِ","وَفِي-ضِيقٍ"]·ben["এবং-সঙ্কটে","ও-ক্লেশ","ও-সংকটে","কষ্টে"]·DE["[ובמצוק]","in-distress","und-anguish","und-in-Not"]·EN["and-anguish","and-in-distress","and-in-the-distress","in-distress"]·FR["[ובמצוק]","dans-détresse","et-dans-distress","et-de-détresse"]·heb["ו-ב-מצוק","ו-מצוק","מצוק"]·HI["और-में-संकट","और-संकट-में","सनकत-मेइन"]·ID["dalam-kesulitan","dan-dalam-kesesakan","dan-dalam-kesulitan","dan-kesempitan"]·IT["[ובמצוק]","[ומצוק]","e-in-angoscia","in-angoscia"]·jav["ingkang","ingkang-karupekan","lan-ing-kasusahan","lan-kasusahan"]·KO["곤궁한","그리고-(전)-고통-에서","그리고-고통-이","그리고-에-곤경에서"]·PT["angustiado","e-em-aperto","e-no-aperto","e-tribulação"]·RU["в-беде","и-в-притеснении","и-в-утеснении","и-теснота"]·ES["angustiado","y-aflicción","y-en-la-angustia"]·SW["dhiki","na-katika-dhiki","na-katika-shida","na-shida"]·TR["sıkıntılı","ve-darlıkta","ve-dert","ve-sıkıntıda"]·urd["اور-تنگی-میں","اور-مصیبت","تنگ-دست"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† מָצוֹק n.[m.] straitness, straits, stress;—always abs. מ׳;—כָּל־אִישׁ מ׳ 1 S 22:2 every man of straits (in straits); בְּמָצוֹר וּבְמ׳ Dt 28:53, 55, 57; Je 19:9 (all of national straits); צַר־וּמ׳ מְצָאוּנִי ψ 119:143; perhaps read מָצוֹק also 32:6, for מצא רק, cf. Du Br.