Tribulation
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Tribulation - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)
Trouble or affiction of any kind (Deut. 4:30; Matt. 13:21; 2 Cor. 7:4). In Rom. 2:9 "tribulation and anguish" are the penal sufferings that shall overtake the wicked. In Matt. 24:21, 29, the word denotes the calamities that were to attend the destruction of Jerusalem.
Tribulation - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
TRIBULA'TION, n. [L. tribulo, to thrash, to beat.] Severe affliction; distresses of life; vexations. In Scripture, it often denotes the troubles and distresses which proceed from persecution.
When tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, he is offended. Mat 13.
In the world ye shall have tribulation. John 16.
In other dictionaries
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- DistressEaston’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
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- AfflictionInternational Standard Bible Encyclopedia
- CalamityInternational Standard Bible Encyclopedia
- TribulationInternational Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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