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Straitly * Notes: (1) For polla, AV, “straitly” in Mar 3:12; Mar 5:43, see MUCH (RV). (2) In Act 4:17 some mss. have apeile, “a threat,” with apeilo (Middle Voice), lit., “let us threaten them with a threat,” AV, “let us straitly threaten;” the best texts omit the noun (so RV). Moulton and Milligan (Vocab.), … Continue reading “Straitly”

Straitest the superlative degree of akribes, “accurate, exact” (cp. akribos, see ACCURATELY and associated words there), occurs in Act 26:5, “the straitest (sect),” RV (AV, “most straitest”). Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Strait, Straiten, Straitly strat, strat’n, stratil: The word strait and its compounds are used in English Versions of the Bible in the literal sense of narrow (car, 2Ki 6:1; Isa 49:20; mucak, Job 37:10;’acal, Eze 42:6) and in the figurative sense of strict (shabha, Exo 13:19; saghar, Jos 6:1; carar, to be distressed, 2Sa 24:14 … Continue reading “Strait, Straiten, Straitly”

Strait Gate Mat 7:13-14 Luk 13:24 Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

Strait (be in a), Straitened “to hold together, constrain,” is translated “I am in a strait” in Phi 1:23 (Passive Voice), i.e., being restricted on both sides, under a pressure which prevents a definite choice; so in Luk 12:50, “(how) am I straitened,” i.e., pressed in. See CONSTRAIN, A, No. 3. “to be pressed for … Continue reading “Strait (be in a), Straitened”

Strait (Adjective) * For the Adjective STRAIT see NARROW Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

STRAIT Narrow, and difficult to pass, Mat 7:13,14 . This word should not be confounded with straight. To be “in a strait,” is to have one’s way beset with doubts or difficulties, to be at a loss, 1Sa 13:6 2Sa 24:14 Phi 1:23 . Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Strait STRAIT.This Eng. word is … Continue reading “Strait”

Strain out primarily denotes “to strain thoroughly” (dia, “through,” intensive, hulizo, “to strain”), then, “to strain out,” as through a sieve or strainer, as in the case of wine, so as to remove the unclean midge, Mat 23:24, RV (AV, “strain at”). In the Sept., Amo 6:6. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Strain, John, D.D a Scotch Catholic prelate, was born December 8, 1810. He was consecrated bishop of Abila (in partibus) by Pius IX, September 25,1864, and appointed vicar-apostolic of the eastern district of Scotland. On the restoration of the hierarchy by Leo XIII, in March 1878, he was translated to the archiepiscopal see of St. … Continue reading “Strain, John, D.D”

Strain, John Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, born at Edinburgh, 8 December, 1810; died there, 2 July, 1883. Educated at Edinburgh High School, at Aquhorties Seminary, and at the Scots College, Rome, he was ordained priest in 1833 and, after work in Edinburgh and Dumfries, was appointed to the mission of Dalbeattie, where he … Continue reading “Strain, John”