1 Samuel 13:6
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
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Strait
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Philippians 1:23
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
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στενός
stenós · sten-os'
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
narrow (from obstacles standing close about)
Strong's KJV usage: :--strait.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 7:13Strong's last: Luke 13:24
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tsârar · tsaw-rar'
3 times translated as this KJV form57 total Strong's occurrences
to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive
Strong's KJV usage: adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 13:6Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 21:13
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tsar · tsar
2 times translated as this KJV form103 total Strong's occurrences
narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
Strong's KJV usage: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Kings 6:1Strong's last: Isaiah 49:20
Open full H6862 profile →συνέχω
synéchō · soon-ekh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
to hold together, i.e. to compress (the ears, with a crowd or siege) or arrest (a prisoner); figuratively, to compel, perplex, afflict, preoccupy
Strong's KJV usage: :--constrain, hold, keep in, press, lie sick of, stop, be in a strait, straiten, be taken with, throng.
Strong's first: Philippians 1:23Strong's last: Philippians 1:23
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peh · peh
1 times translated as this KJV form496 total Strong's occurrences
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
Strong's KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), × eat, edge, end, entry, file, hole, × in, mind, mouth, part, portion, × (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, × spoken, talk, tenor, × to, two-edged, wish, word.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 36:16Strong's last: Job 36:16
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G4728
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
G4728
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
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strait
STRAIT, adjective [See Straight.]
1. Narrow; close; not broad.
STRAIT is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it. Matthew 7:13.
2. Close; intimate; as a strait degree of favor.
3. Strict; rigorous.
He now, forsooth, takes on him to reform some certain edicts, and some strait decrees.
4. Difficult; distressful.
5. Straight; not crooked.
STRAIT, noun [See Straight.]
1. A narrow pass or passage, either in a mountain or in the ocean, between continents or other portions of land; as the straits of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the straits of Dover. [In this sense, the plural is more generally used than the singular, and often without any apparent reason or propriety.]
2. Distress; difficulty; distressing necessity; formerly written streight. [Used either in the singular or plural.]
Let no man who owns a providence, become desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.
Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.
STRAIT, verb transitive To put to difficulties. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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