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Troubled (θλιβόμενοι)
See on tribulation, Mat 13:21. The verb also has the meaning of to straiten, contract, as Mat 7:14, where τεθλιμμένη, A.V. narrow, is properly rendered by Rev. straitened.
Distressed (στενοχωρούμενοι)
Only here and 2Co 6:12. From στενός narrow, and χῶρος a space. Hence cramped. The A.V. gives no suggestion of the figurative paradox. We are pressed closely, yet not cramped. Rev., pressed on every side, yet not straitened.
Perplexed (ἀπορούμενοι)
From ἀ not, and πόρος a passage. Lit., to be unable to find a way out.
In despair (ἐξαπορούμενοι)
Rev., very neatly, rendered unto despair. The word expresses an advance of thought on perplexed, yet on the same line. We are perplexed, but not utterly perplexed. The play between the Greek words cannot be rendered.