Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Tribulation has 3 different meanings across 2 categories:
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"
Any adversity; a trying period or event.
(A period of) persecution before the Second Coming, lasting seven years, which Christians will experience worldwide which will purify and strengthen them.