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tribulation

Meaning of “tribulation”

Affliction, distress, anguish, persecution, oppression, trouble, or suffering.

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KJV context and cross-referencesCawdrey 1604
22 occurrences22 verses12 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Deuteronomy 4:30

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Deuteronomy 4:30
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 4:30 · retained source text

When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come vpon thee, euen in the latter dayes, if thou turne to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient vnto his voice:

1611 marginal noteHebr. haue found thee.

Judges 10:14
Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
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1611 witness · Judges 10:14 · retained source text

Go, and cry vnto the gods which ye haue chosen, let them deliuer you in the time of your tribulation.

1 Samuel 26:24
And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 26:24 · retained source text

And behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes: so let my life bee much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliuer me out of all tribulation.

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.
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1611 witness · Matthew 13:21 · retained source text

Yet hath hee not root in himselfe, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

Matthew 24:21
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
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1611 witness · Matthew 24:21 · retained source text

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor euer shall be.

Matthew 24:29
¶ Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
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1611 witness · Matthew 24:29 · retained source text

¶ Immediately after the tribulation of those dayes, shall the Sunne be darkned, and the Moone shall not giue her light, and the starres shall fall from heauen, and the powers of the heauens shall be shaken.

1611 marginal noteMarke 13.24. luke 21.25. esay 13.10. ioel 2.31. ezek. 32.7.

Mark 13:24
¶ But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
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1611 witness · Mark 13:24 · retained source text

¶ But in those dayes, after that tribulation, the Sunne shalbe darkned, and the Moone shall not giue her light.

1611 marginal noteMatt. 24.29.

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.
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1611 witness · John 16:33 · retained source text

These things I haue spoken vnto you, that in me ye might haue peace, in the world ye shall haue tribulation: but be of good cheare, I haue ouercome 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.
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1611 witness · Acts 14:22 · retained source text

Confirming the soules of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, aud that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdome of God.

Romans 2:9
tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
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1611 witness · Romans 2:9 · retained source text

Tribulation, and anguish vpon euery soule of man that doeth euill, of the Iew first, and also of the Gentile.

1611 marginal noteGr. Greeke

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