Bible Dictionary: Stress

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Distress.

2. (n.) Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.

3. (n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress.

4. (n.) Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35.

5. (n.) Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.

6. (v. t.) To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.

7. (v. t.) To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.

Greek

1142. daimon -- a demon
... See for example Rev 16:14, 18:2. Whereas 1140 () emphasizes the nature of fallen
angels, 1142 () may stress the pervasive presence of demons in the world.]. ...
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19. agathosune -- to do good
... Phonetic Spelling: (ag-ath-o-soo'-nay) Short Definition: goodness Definition: intrinsic
goodness, especially as a personal quality, with stress on the kindly ...
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Topical Bible Verses

1 Peter 5:7
Casting all your care on him; for he cares for you.
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John 14:27
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Philippians 4:6-7
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
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Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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Luke 10:41-42
And Jesus answered and said to her, Martha, Martha, you are careful and troubled about many things:
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Job 30:27
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
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Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
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Matthew 6:33
But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.
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Strong's Hebrew

4689. matsoq -- straits, stress
... 4688, 4689. matsoq. 4690 . straits, stress. Transliteration: matsoq
Phonetic Spelling: (maw-tsoke') Short Definition: distress. ...
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4691. metsuqah -- straits, stress
... 4690, 4691. metsuqah or metsuqah. 4692 . straits, stress. Transliteration:
metsuqah or metsuqah Phonetic Spelling: (mets-oo-kaw') Short Definition: distresses ...
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Library

Whether it is Lawful to Steal through Stress of Need?
... OF THEFT AND ROBBERY (NINE ARTICLES) Whether it is lawful to steal through stress
of need? Objection 1: It would seem unlawful to steal through stress of need. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is lawful to 12.htm

We Will Pass on to Clear up Another of the Charges, if Only He ...
Life and Works of Rufinus with Jerome's Apology Against Rufinus. . ...
/.../we will pass on to.htm

Wesley's Hymns Reconsidered
... The metre most familiar to most of us is, I suppose, iambic: in this metre the line
is divided into pairs of syllables with the stress falling on the second ...
/.../the hymns of wesley and watts five papers/wesleys hymns reconsidered.htm

Be Ye Doers of the Word, not Hearers Only, Deceiving Your Own ...
... The first class make religion to consist altogether in the belief of certain abstract
doctrines, or what they call faith, and lay little or no stress on good ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/be ye doers of the.htm

Prevailing Prayer.
... Some have zealously used truth to convert men, and laid very little stress
on prayer. ... Not that they lay too much stress on prayer. ...
/.../finney/lectures on revivals of religion/lecture iv prevailing prayer.htm

The Temptation
... Mark has not recorded the details of our Lord's temptations, and lays more stress
upon the duration of the struggle, than the nature of the last and crowning ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 1 12 13 the temptation.htm

Thereafter He Shows that There are not Two Christs or Two Lords
... Jesus Whom ye crucified") "is not setting forth to us the mode of the Divine existence,
but the terms which belong to the Incarnation...laying stress by the ...
/.../gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 5 thereafter he shows.htm

Introduction
... best be mastered by the study of such idioms and phrases as are provided in this
book; but just as care must be taken to place every accent or stress on the ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/introduction.htm

The Seven Oecumenical Councils.
... eighty millions, adopts, in common with the Roman communion, the doctrinal decisions
of the seven oldest oecumenical Councils, laying especial stress on the ...
/.../ 11 the seven oecumenical.htm

How we Don't Get In, and How we Do.
... Salvation is not by lineal descent, not by family line. It is "not of blood." John
clears that ground. Some of us put great stress on what we are in ourselves. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks on johns gospel/how we dont get in.htm

Thesaurus

Stress (3 Occurrences)
... or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode
of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress...
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Accent (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (n.) A word; a significant tone. 5. (n.) expressions in general; speech.
6. (n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse. ...
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Shear (5 Occurrences)
... contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel
to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential ...
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Sadducees (14 Occurrences)
... DOCTRINES OF THE SADDUCEES 1. Laid Stress on Ceremonial Exactness 2. Disbelief in
the Spiritual World, in a Resurrection, and in Providence: Their Materialism 3 ...
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Zoroastrianism
... of Purim. And the stress laid on the prophetic ability of the Magi in
Matthew 2:1-12 is certainly not without significance. But ...
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Hezekiah (124 Occurrences)
... Doubtless also many devotional echoes of these times of stress are deducible
from the Psalms, so far as we can fairly identify them. ...
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Predestination
... No category of religious thought could go deeper, for it reaches down to the Infinite
Will in relation to the universe of finite wills, and lays stress on will ...
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Redeemer (42 Occurrences)
... In other words, the redemption of life is to be interpreted so that stress
is laid upon the qualitative rather than the quantitative. ...
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Redemption (46 Occurrences)
... In other words, the redemption of life is to be interpreted so that stress
is laid upon the qualitative rather than the quantitative. ...
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Gift (148 Occurrences)
... At times of intense emotional stress the memory acquires abnormal power, and persons
may repeat words and even long passages in a foreign language, although ...
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Bible Concordance

Stress (3 Occurrences)

2 Timothy 3:1 But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
(See RSV)

Titus 3:8 This is a faithful saying, and on these various points I would have you insist strenuously, in order that those who have their faith fixed on God may be careful to set an example of good actions. For these are not only good in themselves, but are also useful to mankind.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 19:9 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.
(Root in WEB ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Stress

Related Terms

Accent (1 Occurrence)

Shear (5 Occurrences)

Sadducees (14 Occurrences)

Zoroastrianism

Hezekiah (124 Occurrences)

Predestination

Redeemer (42 Occurrences)

Redemption (46 Occurrences)

Gift (148 Occurrences)