Lexicon entry · Greek
G2346θλίβωthlibō
to press onPart of speech: Greek Verb
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How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.
τεθλιμμένη tethlimmenē “compressed”
He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.
θλίβωσιν thlibōsin “they may press upon”
But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
θλιβόμεθα, thlibometha “we are constricted,”
We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
θλιβόμενοι thlibomenoi “being hard pressed”
For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
θλιβόμενοι· thlibomenoi “we are being pressed:”
For most assuredly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
θλίβεσθαι thlibesthai “to suffer affliction”
Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
θλίβουσιν thlibousin “oppressing”
and to give relief to you that are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
θλιβομένοις thlibomenois “being oppressed”
being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
θλιβομένοις thlibomenois “to those being oppressed”
They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
θλιβόμενοι, thlibomenoi “being oppressed,”