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Dictionaries :: Constrain

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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Constrain:

kon-stran':Generally in the sense of pressing urgently (2Ki 4:8; Lu 24:29; Ac 16:15), to impel or carry away (2Co 5:14); sometimes to be compelled of necessity (Job 32:18; Ac 28:19; compare Ga 6:12).

See COMPEL

King James Dictionary

Constrain: To Compel.

And straightway Jesus CONSTRAINED his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone. (Matthew 14:22-23)

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