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Lexicon :: Strong's G4728 - stenos

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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)
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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.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 Box Num 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:26 - And the angel of the LORD 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 Box 1Sa 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 high places, and in pits.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:14 - And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain 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 Box 1Sa 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 strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:29 - And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at Engedi.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 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 hold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 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 the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:11 - Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:11 - Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:22 - And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 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 removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 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 Box Zec 10:11

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