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.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Tribulation
Easton’s Bible Dictionary, M. G. Easton (1897). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.