ΣΤΕΝΟΙΣ, στενοις
STENOIS, stenois
Sounds Like: steh-NOYS
Translations: (to) narrow, (to) strait, (to) confined, (to) restricted, (to) difficult, (to) distress, (to) straits, (to) difficulties
From the root: ΣΤΕΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word describes something that is narrow, confined, or restricted. As an adjective, it can modify a noun to indicate a narrow path, gate, or space. As a noun (often in the plural), it refers to narrow places, straits, or metaphorically, to difficulties and distress. It is often used in contexts describing challenging circumstances or physical constraints.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Masculine, Feminine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G4728 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 20 — 5:111
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΤΕΝΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΣΤΕΝΑ — narrow, strait, difficult, restricted, narrowly, with difficulty
- ΣΤΕΝΑΙ — narrow, strait, confined, restricted
- ΣΤΕΝΑΣ — narrow, strait
- ΣΤΕΝΗ — narrow, strait, confined, a narrow
- ΣΤΕΝΗΝ — narrow, a narrow, strait, a strait
- ΣΤΕΝΗΣ — narrow, strait, confined
- ΣΤΕΝΟΝ — narrow, a narrow, strait, a strait, confined, a confined
- ΣΤΕΝΟΣ — narrow, strait, confined, restricted, difficult
- ΣΤΕΝΟΤΑΤΑΣ — narrowest, very narrow
- ΣΤΕΝΟΤΑΤΟΝ — narrowest, straitest, the narrowest, a narrowest
- ΣΤΕΝΟΤΕΡΟΝ — narrower, more confined, stricter, a narrower thing
- ΣΤΕΝΟΤΕΡΩ — (to) narrower, (to) more narrow, (to) straiter, (to) more strait
- ΣΤΕΝΩΤΑΤΟΣ — narrowest, very narrow, most narrow, an extremely narrow
- ΤΕΝΟΙΣ — narrow, confined, strait, difficult, narrow place, strait place
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