tribulation

Pronunciation:		`tribyu'leyshun
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WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague"

	Synonyms:	trial, visitation

	See Also:	affliction, fire

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Trib`u*la"tion\, n. [OE. tribulacium, F. tribulation, L. tribulatio, from tribulare to press, afflict, fr. tribulum a thrashing sledge, akin to terere, tritum, to rub. See {Trite}.] That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction. When tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. --Matt. xiii. 21. In the world ye shall have tribulation. --John. xvi. 33.

Easton Bible Dictionary

	Definition:	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.