Easton's Bible Dictionary: M. G. Easton, M.A., D.D.
Trouble or affiction of any kind (Dt. 4:30; Mt. 13:21; 2 Cor. 7:4). In Rom. 2:9 "tribulation and anguish" are the penal sufferings that shall overtake the wicked. In Mt. 24:21, 29, the word denotes the calamities that were to attend the destruction of Jerusalem.