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Lexicon :: Strong's G4728 - stenos

Aa
στενός
Transliteration
stenos (Key)
Pronunciation
sten-os'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from the base of ἵστημι (G2476)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:604,1077

Strong’s Definitions

στενός stenós, sten-os'; probably from the base of G2476; narrow (from obstacles standing close about):—strait.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G4728 in the following manner: strait (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G4728 in the following manner: strait (3x).

  1. narrow, strait

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
στενός stenós, sten-os'; probably from the base of G2476; narrow (from obstacles standing close about):—strait.
STRONGS G4728:
στενός, στενή, στενόν, from Aeschylus and Herodotus down, the Sept. for צַר, narrow, strait: πύλη, Matthew 7:13 (14 (here L Tr brackets πύλη)); Luke 13:24.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
7:13
Luke
13:24

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4728 matches the Greek στενός (stenos),
which occurs 17 times in 17 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:26 - And the angel of Jehovah went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:14 - And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:19 - Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:29 - And David went up from thence, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-gedi.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:22 - And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the stronghold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:14 - And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of Jehovah; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:1 - And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell before thee is too strait for us.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:13 - And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Jehovah; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:11 -
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side,
And shall chase him at his heels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:11 -
They make oil within the walls of these men;
They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 -
For a harlot is a deep ditch;
And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:22 - and they shall look unto the earth, and, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness they shall be driven away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:20 - And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:20 - The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:7 - Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 - And he will pass through the sea of affliction, and will smite the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart.
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