to crowd together into a narrow place, straiten;, pass. met. to be in straits, to be cooped up, to be cramped from action, 2 Cor. 4:8; to be cramped in feeling, 2 Cor. 6:12*

narrow, strait, Mt. 7:13, 14; Lk. 13:24*

to groan, sigh, Rom. 8:23; 2 Cor. 5:2, 4; Heb. 13:17; to sigh inwardly, Mk. 7:34; to give vent to querulous or censorious feelings, Jas. 5:9*

a sighing, groaning, groan, Acts 7:34; an inward sighing, Rom. 8:26*

a crown, wreath, Acts 14:13*

pr. to place in set order, to arrange; to equip; to despatch; to stow; mid. to contract one's self, to shrink; to withdraw from, avoid, shun, 2 Cor. 8:20; 2 Thess. 3:6*

barren, incapable of bearing children, Lk. 1:7, 36; 23:29; Gal. 4:27; Heb. 11:11*

to cover; to hold off, to hold in;, hence, to hold out against, to endure patiently, 1 Cor. 9:12; 13:7; absol. to contain one's self, 1 Thess. 3:1, 5*

a roof, flat roof, of a house, Mt. 8:8; Mk. 2:4; Lk. 7:6*

Stachys, pr. name, Rom. 16:9*