Tests on my Heart

Last week I had a word stuck in my head and I couldn't remember what it meant. I could have solved that problem pretty easily by just grabbing my text book, or looking in my dictionary, but I didn't want to. Maybe I was lazy, or maybe I was just enjoying the sound removed from its meaning. Thlipsis. It's a greek word. I think it sounds fantastic.
Anyways, at this point I should apologize to Professor Thomson if he's reading this. I don't know why he would be, but I do feel bad for the next part.
I was sitting in my last New Testament class of the semester and I wasn't paying attention at all. It was mid afternoon, the sun was shining, I had just come from a meeting and I wasn't ready to focus. It didn't help that I didn't have my laptop to try and make notes either. Anyways, as I was sitting there, not paying attention, and reading a graphic novel I tuned in to his lecture just in time to hear him say, "The one word you will want to remember from this, is thlipsis"
It means tribulation.
trial: an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations ...
I don't know the significance. I just think it's too coincidental for there to not be any more meaning to it.