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Adjective stenos (narrow) in the Bible
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
| 7: 13 | "Enter through the narrow (stenos) gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. |
| 7: 14 | For the gate is narrow (stenos) and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it. |
Luke
| 13: 24 | "Strive to enter through the narrow (stenos) door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. |
Genesis (LXX)
| 4: 12 | When thou tillest the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to thee: thou shalt be trembling of narrow (stenos) [i.e. oppressive] [things] on the earth. |
| 4: 14 | If thou castest me out this day from the face of the earth, and I shall be hidden from thy presence, and I shall be trembling of narrow (stenos) [i.e. oppressive] [things] on the earth, then it will be that any one that finds me shall slay me. |
Numbers (LXX)
| 22: 26 | And the angel of the Lord went farther, and came and stood in a narrow (stenos) place where it was impossible to turn to the right or the left. |
1 Samuel (LXX: 1 Kings)
| 23: 14 | And he dwelt in Maserem in the wilderness, in the narrow (stenos) passes; and dwelt in the wilderness in mount Ziph, in the dry country. And Saul sought him continually, but the Lord delivered him not into his hands. |
| 23: 19 | And the Ziphites came up out of the dry country to Saul to the hill, saying, Behold, is not David hidden with us in Messara, in the narrows (stenos) in Caene in the hill of Echela, which is on the right of Jessaemon? |
| 24: 1 | And David rose up from thence, and dwelt in the narrow (stenos) passes of Engaddi. |
| 24: 23 | So David swore to Saul: and Saul departed to his place, and David and his men went up to the narrow (stenos) pass of Messera. |
2 Samuel (LXX: 2 Kings)
| 24: 14 | And David said to Gad, On every side there are narrow (stenos) [i.e. oppressive] [things]: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his compassions are very many; and let me not fall into the hands of man. |
2 Kings (LXX: 4 Kings)
| 6: 1 | And the sons of the prophets said to Elisaie, Behold now, the place wherein we dwell before thee is too narrow (stenos) for us. |
1 Chronicles (LXX)
| 21: 13 | And David said to Gad, They are extremely narrow (stenos) [i.e. oppressive] [things], even all the three: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are very abundant, and let me not fall by any means into the hands of man. |
Isaiah (LXX)
| 8: 22 | and they shall look on the earth below, and behold there will be distress and suffocation and darkness, narrow (stenos) [i.e. oppressive] perplexity, and darkness so that one cannot see; |
| 30: 20 | And though the Lord shall give you the bread of affliction and narrow (stenos) [i.e. oppressive] water, yet they that cause thee to err shall no more at all draw nigh to thee; for thine eyes shall see those that cause thee to err, |
| 49: 20 | For thy sons whom thou hast lost shall say in thine ears, The place is too narrow (stenos) for me: make room for me that I may dwell. |
Jeremiah (LXX)
| 30 (37): 7 | For that day is great, and there is not such another; and it is a narrow (stenos) time [i.e. oppressive] to Jacob; but he shall be saved out of it. |
Zechariah (LXX)
| 10: 11 | And they shall pass through a narrow (stenos) sea, they shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deep places of the rivers shall be dried up: and all the pride of the Assyrians shall be taken away, and the sceptre of Egypt shall be removed. |
Daniel (LXX: Theodotion version)
| 13: 22 | Then Susanna sighed, and said, narrow (stenos) [i.e. oppressive] [things] on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death unto me: and if I do it not, I cannot escape your hands. |
Baruch (LXX)
| 3: 1 | O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in narrow (stenos) [i.e. oppressive] [things], the troubled spirit, crieth unto thee. |
Job (LXX)
| 10: 1 | Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with narrow (stenos) [i.e. oppressive] [things] upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul. |
| 18: 11 | Let pains destroy him round about, and let many enemies come about him, in a narrow (stenos) [i.e. oppressive] hunger. |
| 24: 11 | They have unrighteously laid wait in narrow (stenos) places, and have not known the righteous way. |
| 30: 28 | With narrow (stenos) [i.e. oppressive] [things] I went without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly. |
Judith (LXX)
| 4: 7 | charging them to keep the passages of the hill country: for by them there was an entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop them that would come up, because the passage was narrow (stenos), for two men at the most. |
Proverbs (LXX)
| 23: 27 | For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow (stenos). |
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