Hard-pressed
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Greek
4912. sunecho -- to hold together, to hold fast, pass. to be ...
... illness) NASB Word Usage afflicted (1), controls (1), covered (1), crowding (1),
devoting...completely (1), distressed (1), gripped (1), hard-pressed (1), hem ...
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Strong's Hebrew
7185. qashah -- to be hard, severe or fierce
... root Definition to be hard, severe or fierce NASB Word Usage became stubborn* (2),
cruel (1), defied* (1), hard (1), hard thing (1), hard-pressed (1), harden (2 ...
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5065. nagas -- to press, drive, oppress, exact
... root Definition to press, drive, oppress, exact NASB Word Usage drive hard (1),
driver (1), exact (2), exacted (1), hard-pressed (2), oppressed (2), oppressor ...
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Library

A Natural Figure of Speech must not be Literally Pressed.
... of all has sinned, but "all," that is, "all men," seeing that man is not flesh
only);"as, I repeat, he ought not to be too hard pressed himself, because it ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 28 a natural figure of.htm

A Composite Picture.
... or serious. When perplexed He prayed. When hard pressed by work He prayed.
When hungry for fellowship He found it in prayer. He ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on prayer/a composite picture.htm

Of the Way of the Lord, How it is Narrow, and How Jesus is the Way ...
... This way is narrow, indeed, for the many cannot bear to walk in it and are lovers
of their flesh; but it is also hard-pressed [4877] by those who use violence ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of john/11 of the way of.htm

The Fan-Bearer's Quest
... "Have ye also joined yourselves with Har-hat to run that hard-pressed child
to earth?" he exclaimed. "Do ye call yourselves men?". ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxii the fan-bearers quest.htm

Seventh Chapter
... as it may be that you may be brought into great perplexity if you be minded to go
the straight and narrow way, and that you will be hard pressed and assailed ...
/.../the history and life of the reverend doctor john tauler/seventh chapter.htm

Love for Hate, the True Quid Pro Quo
... A sudden Philistine invasion had saved David, when hard pressed by Saul, and had
given him the opportunity of flight to the wild country on the west of the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/love for hate the true.htm

The Carthage Student
... And yet he owed him a great deal. Patricius was hard pressed, and he took immense
trouble to provide the means for his son's education. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bertrand/saint augustin/iii the carthage student.htm

"The Pharaoh Drew Nigh"
... "Here am I, then.". Meneptah, with the inordinate suspicion of the hard-pressed,
backed hurriedly away from Kenkenes. "Who art thou?" he demanded. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xliii the pharaoh drew.htm

Grundtvig's Early Years
... cultivation of buckwheat," we cannot but recognize their devoted labor for the
educational and economic uplift, especially of the hard-pressed peasants. ...
/.../hymns and hymnwriters of denmark/chapter eleven grundtvigs early years.htm

Habakkuk-On his Watch-Tower
... Alone!"and with his faith very hard pressed between God, in His righteous anger
on the one hand, and guilty Judah, under her great agony and oppression, on ...
/.../whyte/lord teach us to pray/ix habakkuk-on his watch-tower.htm

Thesaurus
Eupator
... accession he collected a large army and marched against Jerusalem, accompanied by
Lysias, for the relief of a Syrian garrison that was hardpressed by Judas ...
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Hard-pressed (4 Occurrences)
Hard-pressed. Hardness, Hard-pressed. Hardship . Multi-Version
Concordance Hard-pressed (4 Occurrences). Philippians ...
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Utterly (170 Occurrences)
... life. (See RSV). 2 Corinthians 4:8 We are hardpressed, yet never in absolute
distress; perplexed, yet never utterly baffled; (WEY). 2 ...
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Take (11064 Occurrences)
... (vi) To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed;
to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hardpressed, took to the hedge. ...
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Gezer (14 Occurrences)
... Three of these famous clay tablets are dated from Gezer itself and are written in
the name of the governor Yapachi; he was then hardpressed by the Khabiri ...
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Bestead (1 Occurrence)
... be-sted' (niqsheh, "caught in a snare," "entrapped"; as Judah hardpressed in their
own land by the Assyrians (Isaiah 8:21 the King James Version)): Found only ...
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Baffled (4 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). 2 Corinthians 4:8 We are hardpressed, yet never in absolute distress;
perplexed, yet never utterly baffled; (WEY). Ezekiel ...
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Absolute (5 Occurrences)
... nothing. (WEY). 2 Corinthians 4:8 We are hardpressed, yet never in absolute
distress; perplexed, yet never utterly baffled; (WEY). 2 ...
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Shimei (43 Occurrences)
... 20 1 Kings 2:8, 9, 36-46), who met David at Bahurim as he was fleeing from Absalom,
and in bitter and cowardly fashion cursed and attacked the hard-pressed king ...
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Maccabaeus
... He took possession of Jerusalem, except the "Tower," where he was subsequently besieged
and hardpressed by Lysias and the young king Antiochus Eupator in 163 ...
/m/maccabaeus.htm - 17k

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Hard-pressed (4 Occurrences)

Philippians 1:23
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
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1 Samuel 13:6
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.
(See NAS)

1 Samuel 14:24
The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, "Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies." So none of the people tasted food.
(See NAS)

Isaiah 8:21
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
(See NAS)

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Utterly (170 Occurrences)

Take (11064 Occurrences)

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Absolute (5 Occurrences)

Shimei (43 Occurrences)

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