47 verses contain “strait” (in the KJV: 47, in the BSB: 0) — showing 1–47
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And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”
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.
Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath when he said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones with you from this place.”
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.
And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
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.
Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.
He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.
By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
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.
Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
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.
Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
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.
For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.
O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?
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:
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one finds out about this!”
And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
But He warned them sternly not to make Him known.
And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
Then Jesus gave strict orders that no one should know about this, and He told them to give her something to eat.
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.
“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”
It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.
But the heathen of the land lying heavy upon the inhabitants of Judea, and holding them strait, hindered their building;
If then they that live labour not to enter these strait and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.
Nevertheless the righteous shall suffer strait things, and hope for wide: for they that have done wickedly have suffered the strait things, and yet shall not see the wide.
For God hath given strait commandment to such as came, what they should do to live, even as they came, and what they should observe to avoid punishment.
And as soon as the morning arose, they hanged the head of Holofernes upon the wall, and every man took his weapons, and they went forth by bands unto the straits of the mountain.
So then whosoever there fell down was straitly kept, shut up in a prison without iron bars,
If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly, lest she abuse herself through overmuch liberty.
Then Susanna sighed, and said, I am straitened 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.