Strong G4728στενός
narrow
- Transliteration
- stenos
- Pronunciation
- sten-os'
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
Probably from the base of G2476; narrow (from obstacles standing close about): - strait.
Detailed definition
στενός, -ή, -όν
[in LXX for צַר, etc.;]
narrow: fig (v MM, xxiii), Mat.7:13-14, Luk.13:24.†
(AS)
[in LXX for צַר, etc.;]
narrow: fig (v MM, xxiii), Mat.7:13-14, Luk.13:24.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4728 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- strait3
First verses
- Matthew 7:13Enter 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:
- Matthew 7:14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
- Luke 13:24Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
στενός,
Ionic dialect στεινός, ή, όν, Aeolic dialect στένος [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 34 (uncertain reading))]:— narrow, opposed to εὐρύς, πλατύς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.8 (_superlative_), 4.195, +others)]; ψαλίς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 367; δίαυλος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 435; ἐσβολή 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.175 (_comparative_))]; πόρος[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 176; ἡ ἔσοδος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.51; οὔτ᾽ εὐρεῖα οὔτε στενὴ διαφυγή 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 737a)]; ἐν στενῷ, Ionic dialect στεινῷ, in a narrow space, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 413, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.60)]. ; ποιεῖν τὸν δῆμον εὐρὺν καὶ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 720; σ. ποδεών 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.31; ἔντερον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 161)]; πόροι, φλέβες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 101a, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 66a)]; κεφαλή, πόδες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.30.)]
2 substantive, τὰ σ. the narrows, straits, of a pass, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.223)]; of a sea, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.86, etc.)]; of the straits of Gibraltar, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 3.5.5)]; so τὸ σ. the strait [Refs 5th c.BC+ ((from Hellespont), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMar.” 9.1; ἐπὶ σ. τῆς ὁδοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.29)]; also ἡ στενή a narrow strip of land, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.99)]; τὰ σ. passes, defiles, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.334 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]
II metaphorically, close, confined, ἀπειληθέντες ἐς στεινόν driven into a corner, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.34; σ. ζῶμεν χρόνον 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 410; εἰς στενὸν κομιδῇ τὰ τῆς τροφῆς τινι καταστήσεται 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.22; εἰς σ. τοῦ καιροῦ φθείρεσθαι 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.24.)]
II.2 scanty, petty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 497c; ὑποθέσεις 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 7.7.6; ἐλπίδες 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.52; ἐρωτήσεις 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.30)]; small-minded, narrow-minded, in adverb comparative, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“PGiss.” 40 ii7 (3rd c.AD).)]
II.3 of sound and style, thin, meagre, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Audibilibus” 803b24, “Rh.” 1413b15)]; hard to pronounce, συλλαβὴ σ. καὶ δύστομος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 2.15.— 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 2.76 H., “Etymologicum Magnum” 275.50 say that στενός, like{κενός}, forms the _comparative_ and _superlative_ στενότερος, στενότατος, and these forms are explainable from *στενϝότερος, *στενϝότατος, which are implied by the Ionic forms στεινότερος, -ότατος (στεινότερος occurs in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.181, 7.175)], στενότερος in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 7.3073.109 (Lebad., 2nd c.BC), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 111d, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.3 with variant))]; and στενοτάτου is required by the metre in [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Scymnus Geographus 922)]; the form στενώτερος is however found in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 22, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 675a35, +others)]
III adverb, στενῶς διακεῖσθαι to be in difficulties, [LXX+3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri du Caire 498 (3rd c.BC), “PTeb.” 760.19 (3rd c.BC), 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 8.86, cf. LXX.1Ki.13.6.)]
Ionic dialect στεινός, ή, όν, Aeolic dialect στένος [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 34 (uncertain reading))]:— narrow, opposed to εὐρύς, πλατύς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.8 (_superlative_), 4.195, +others)]; ψαλίς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 367; δίαυλος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 435; ἐσβολή 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.175 (_comparative_))]; πόρος[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 176; ἡ ἔσοδος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.51; οὔτ᾽ εὐρεῖα οὔτε στενὴ διαφυγή 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 737a)]; ἐν στενῷ, Ionic dialect στεινῷ, in a narrow space, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 413, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.60)]. ; ποιεῖν τὸν δῆμον εὐρὺν καὶ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 720; σ. ποδεών 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.31; ἔντερον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 161)]; πόροι, φλέβες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 101a, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 66a)]; κεφαλή, πόδες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.30.)]
2 substantive, τὰ σ. the narrows, straits, of a pass, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.223)]; of a sea, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.86, etc.)]; of the straits of Gibraltar, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 3.5.5)]; so τὸ σ. the strait [Refs 5th c.BC+ ((from Hellespont), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMar.” 9.1; ἐπὶ σ. τῆς ὁδοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.29)]; also ἡ στενή a narrow strip of land, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.99)]; τὰ σ. passes, defiles, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.334 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]
II metaphorically, close, confined, ἀπειληθέντες ἐς στεινόν driven into a corner, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.34; σ. ζῶμεν χρόνον 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 410; εἰς στενὸν κομιδῇ τὰ τῆς τροφῆς τινι καταστήσεται 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.22; εἰς σ. τοῦ καιροῦ φθείρεσθαι 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.24.)]
II.2 scanty, petty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 497c; ὑποθέσεις 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 7.7.6; ἐλπίδες 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.52; ἐρωτήσεις 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.30)]; small-minded, narrow-minded, in adverb comparative, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“PGiss.” 40 ii7 (3rd c.AD).)]
II.3 of sound and style, thin, meagre, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Audibilibus” 803b24, “Rh.” 1413b15)]; hard to pronounce, συλλαβὴ σ. καὶ δύστομος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 2.15.— 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 2.76 H., “Etymologicum Magnum” 275.50 say that στενός, like{κενός}, forms the _comparative_ and _superlative_ στενότερος, στενότατος, and these forms are explainable from *στενϝότερος, *στενϝότατος, which are implied by the Ionic forms στεινότερος, -ότατος (στεινότερος occurs in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.181, 7.175)], στενότερος in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 7.3073.109 (Lebad., 2nd c.BC), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 111d, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.3 with variant))]; and στενοτάτου is required by the metre in [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Scymnus Geographus 922)]; the form στενώτερος is however found in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 22, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 675a35, +others)]
III adverb, στενῶς διακεῖσθαι to be in difficulties, [LXX+3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri du Caire 498 (3rd c.BC), “PTeb.” 760.19 (3rd c.BC), 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 8.86, cf. LXX.1Ki.13.6.)]