Job 20:22
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
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Straits
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Lamentations 1:3
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
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יָצַר
yâtsar · yaw-tsar'
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to press (intransitive), i.e. be narrow; figuratively, be in distress
Strong's KJV usage: be distressed, be narrow, be straitened (in straits), be vexed.
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Strong's first: Job 20:22Strong's last: Job 20:22
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mêtsar · may-tsar'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
something tight, i.e. (figuratively) trouble
Strong's KJV usage: distress, pain, strait.
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Strong's first: Lamentations 1:3Strong's last: Lamentations 1:3
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Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
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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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