Jump to: ATS • ISBE • Webster's • Concordance • Thesaurus • Greek • Hebrew • Library • Subtopics • Terms Thesaurus Strait (14 Occurrences)... 10. (n.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits ...STRAIT; STRAITEN; STRAITLY. ... /s/strait.htm - 13k Straiten (4 Occurrences) Straight (196 Occurrences) Straitly (12 Occurrences) Narrow (21 Occurrences) Leadeth (42 Occurrences) Leading (101 Occurrences) Trogyllium (1 Occurrence) Rhegium (1 Occurrence) Channel (3 Occurrences) Bible Concordance Strait (14 Occurrences)Matthew 7:13 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: Matthew 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Luke 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. 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: Numbers 22:26 and the messenger of Jehovah addeth to pass over, and standeth in a strait place where there is no way to turn aside -- right or left -- Joshua 19:47 And the border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father. 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 coverts, and in pits. 2 Samuel 24:14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man. 2 Kings 6:1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us. 1 Chronicles 21:13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man. Job 36:16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness. Proverbs 23:27 For a harlot 'is' a deep ditch, And a strange woman 'is' a strait pit. Isaiah 49:19 For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy land that hath been destroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. Isaiah 49:20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1. (n.) A narrow passageway connecting two larger bodies of water.2. (superl.) Narrow; not broad. 3. (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting. 4. (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar. 5. (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous. 6. (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited. 7. (superl.) Parsimonious; niggardly; mean. 8. (adv.) Strictly; rigorously. 9. (n.) A narrow pass or passage. 10. (n.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw. 11. (n.) A neck of land; an isthmus. 12. (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits. 13. (v. t.) To put to difficulties. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia STRAIT; STRAITEN; STRAITLYstrat, strat'-'-n, strat'-il: The word "strait" and its compounds are used in English Versions of the Bible in the literal sense of "narrow" (tsar, 2 Kings 6:1 Isaiah 49:20; mutsaq, Job 37:10; 'atsal, Ezekiel 42:6) and in the figurative sense of "strict" (shabha`, Exodus 13:19; caghar, Joshua 6:1; tsarar, "to be distressed," 2 Samuel 24:14 parallel; yatsar, Job 20:22; metsar, Lamentations 1:3). In Apocrypha the verb "straitened" occurs in Susanna verse 22. In the New Testament we have stenos (Matthew 7:13 f parallel, the Revised Version (British and American) "narrow"; polus, "much"; so the Revised Version (British and American) Mark 3:12; Mark 5:43; sunecho, "to urge," "hold together," Luke 12:50 Philippians 1:23). It occurs in its superlative form in Acts 26:5, "After the straitest (akribestatos, "most exact," "scrupulous") sect of our religion," i.e. "the most precise and rigorous in interpreting the Mosaic Law, and in observing the more minute precepts of the Law and of tradition" (Thayer, Lexicon, under the word; compare Acts 22:3). Greek 4728. stenos -- narrow ... narrow. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: stenos Phonetic Spelling: (sten-os') Short Definition: narrow Definition: narrow, strait. ... narrow, strait. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4728.htm - 6k 4912. sunecho -- to hold together, to hold fast, pass. to be ... Strong's Hebrew 4712. metsar -- straits, distress... distress, pain, strait. From qebah; something tight, ie (figuratively) trouble -- distress, pain, strait. see HEBREW qebah. 4711, 4712. metsar. 4713 . ... /hebrew/4712.htm - 6k 6887. tsarar -- to bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow, scant, or ... 6862b. tsar -- straits, distress 6862. tsar -- narrow, tight 6695. tsowq -- constraint, distress Library The Strait Gate The Strait Gate; Call to Entire Devotion. --The Strait Gate and the Narrow Way. ... Thoughts Upon Striving to Enter at the Strait Gate. The Strait Gate. Warned against Herod. Rule for Removing Ambiguity by Attending to Punctuation. But when Proper Words Make Scripture Ambiguous, we must See in the ... The Two Paths Chapter xxiii. Of the Praise and Might of Charity: and of Forsaking the World ... Subtopics Strait Gate: (The Narrow Path Toward Righteousness) Related Terms Links Bible Concordance • Bible Dictionary • Bible Encyclopedia • Topical Bible • Bible Thesuarus |
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