Bible Dictionary: Straitness

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the Straitness their circumstances.

Strong's Hebrew

4164. mutsaq -- constraint, distress
... anguish, straitness. Or muwtsaq {moo-tsawk'}; from yatsaq; narrowness; figuratively,
distress -- anguish, is straitened, straitness. see HEBREW yatsaq. ...
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4689. matsoq -- straits, stress
... anguish, distress. From tsuwq; a narrow place, ie (abstractly and figuratively)
confinement or disability -- anguish, distress, straitness. see HEBREW tsuwq. ...
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Library

The Oration of Moses at the Rehearsal of the Blessing and 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 ...
/.../various/select masterpieces of biblical literature/i the oration of moses.htm

"Come unto Me, all Ye that Labour, and are Wearied," &C.
... The straitness and narrowness of our spirits takes in truth by parcels, disjointed
from the whole, looks upon one side of it, and sees not the other. ...
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Psalm LXXXIII.
... "Tyre" in Hebrew is called Sor; which whether it be interpreted straitness or
tribulation, must be taken in the case of these enemies of God's people in that ...
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The Strait Gate;
... Here we have a most searching and faithful display of the straitness or exact
dimensions of that all-important gate, which will not suffer many professors to ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the strait gate.htm

Psalm CXLII.
... Lastly, brethren, as I think, he meant this; "Bring my soul out of prison," bring
it out of straitness. ... Therefore prayeth he to be brought out of straitness. ...
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Fragment vi.
... Fragment VI. Neither is there straitness with God, nor anything that is not
absolutely perfect."From manuscript of the writings of Justin. ...
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Commandment Tenth. Of Grief, and not Grieving the Spirit of God ...
... from you. For the Spirit of God which has been granted to us to dwell in
this body does not endure grief nor straitness. Wherefore ...
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Conversion.
... The straitness, the narrowness, must not be understood of the gate simply, but because
of that cumber that some men carry with them that pretend to be going to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the riches of bunyan/xi conversion.htm

Chapter i
... [521] For he says that the subject-matter of the Divine Science is vast and yet
minute, and that the Gospel combines in itself both width and straitness. ...
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Of the Praise of Solitary Life and of the First Lovers Thereof ...
... and seeking only the love of Christ, after a little while they shall seem to themselves
to live more in delight, than in weeping, or straitness of labour. ...
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Thesaurus

Straitness (6 Occurrences)
... (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or
situation caused by poverty; as, the Straitness their circumstances. ...
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Wherewith (182 Occurrences)
... 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 ...
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Straits (9 Occurrences)

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Straitly (12 Occurrences)

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Jaws (12 Occurrences)
... Job 36:16 Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a
broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table would be ...
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Adversity (54 Occurrences)
... distress and evil conveyed by four Hebrew words: tsela`, "a halting" or "fall";
tsarah, "straits" "distress," "affliction"; tsar, "straitness," "affliction"; ra ...
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Afterbirth (1 Occurrence)
... her feet, and her children whom she shall bear; for she shall secretly eat them
for want of everything in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy ...
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Anguish (75 Occurrences)
... expressed in Old Testament, by four derivatives of tsuq, "straitened," "pressed,"
and tsar, and two derivatives signifying "straitness," "narrowness," hence ...
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Straiten (4 Occurrences)
... 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 ...
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Strait (14 Occurrences)
... Job 36:16 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 ...
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Bible Concordance

Straitness (6 Occurrences)

Deuteronomy 28:53 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:
(KJV JPS DBY WBS YLT)

Deuteronomy 28:55 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.
(KJV JPS DBY WBS YLT)

Deuteronomy 28:57 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.
(KJV JPS DBY WBS YLT)

Job 36:16 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.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Psalms 118:5 From the straitness I called Jah, Jah answered me in a broad place.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 19:9 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.
(KJV JPS DBY YLT)

Subtopics

Straitness

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Wherewith (182 Occurrences)

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Straitly (12 Occurrences)

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Afterbirth (1 Occurrence)

Anguish (75 Occurrences)

Straiten (4 Occurrences)

Strait (14 Occurrences)