Topic
Strait; Straiten; Straitly
16 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
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- Exodus 13:19ISBE
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
- Joshua 6:1ISBE
Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
- 2 Samuel 24:14ISBE
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 6:1ISBE
And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
- Job 20:22ISBE
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
- Job 37:10ISBE
By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
- Isaiah 49:20ISBE
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.
- Lamentations 1:3ISBE
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.
- Ezekiel 42:6ISBE
For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
- Matthew 7:13ISBE
¶ 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:
- Mark 3:12ISBE
And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
- Mark 5:43ISBE
And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
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- Luke 12:50 ISBE
- Acts 22:3 ISBE
- Acts 26:5 ISBE
- Philippians 1:23 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 17 references
strat, 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, 2Ki 6:1; Isa 49:20; mutsaq, Job 37:10; 'atsal, Eze 42:6) and in the figurative sense of "strict" (shabha`, Ex 13:19; caghar, Jos 6:1; tsarar, "to be distressed," 2Sa 24:14 parallel; yatsar, Job 20:22; metsar, La 1:3). In Apocrypha the verb "straitened" occurs in Susanna verse 22. In the New Testament we have stenos (Mt 7:13 f parallel, the Revised Version (British and American) "narrow"; polus, "much"; so the Revised Version (British and American) Mr 3:12; 5:43; sunecho, "to urge," "hold together," Lu 12:50; Php 1:23). It occurs in its superlative form in Ac 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 Ac 22:3).
See also STRAIGHT, STRAIGHTWAY.
M. O. Evans
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.