G2346–θλίβω–thlibō

because narrow is the gate and contracted the road which leads to Life, and few are those who find it.

τεθλιμμένη tethlimmenē “compressed”

So He gave directions to His disciples to keep a small boat in constant attendance on Him because of the throng--to prevent their crushing Him.

θλίβωσιν thlibōsin “they may press upon”

But if, on the one hand, we are enduring affliction, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if, on the other hand, we are receiving comfort, it is for your comfort which is produced within you through your patient fortitude under the same sufferings

θλιβόμεθα, thlibometha “we are constricted,”

We are hard pressed, yet never in absolute distress; perplexed, yet never utterly baffled;

θλιβόμενοι thlibomenoi “being hard pressed”

For even after our arrival in Macedonia we could get no relief such as human nature craves. We were greatly harassed; there were conflicts without and fears within.

θλιβόμενοι· thlibomenoi “we are being pressed:”

For even when we were with you, we forewarned you, saying, "We are soon to suffer affliction;" and this actually happened, as you well know.

θλίβεσθαι thlibesthai “to suffer affliction”

A plain token of God's righteous judgement, I say, since it is a righteous thing for Him to requite with affliction those who are now afflicting you;

θλίβουσιν thlibousin “oppressing”

and to requite with rest you who are suffering affliction now--rest with us at the re-appearing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven, attended by His mighty angels.

θλιβομένοις thlibomenois “being oppressed”

She must have been true to her one husband, and well reported of for good deeds, as having brought up children, received strangers hospitably, washed the feet of God's people, given relief to the distressed, and devoted herself to good works of every ki

θλιβομένοις thlibomenois “to those being oppressed”

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried by temptation, they were killed with the sword. They went from place to place in sheepskins or goatskins, enduring want, oppression and cruelty.

θλιβόμενοι, thlibomenoi “being oppressed,”