'Troubles' in the Bible

And the Lord sent great troubles on Pharaoh's house because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy from where he is [resting].

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

He named his second son Ephraim because, he said, "God has made me fruitful in the land of my troubles."