Definition

narrow (from obstacles standing close about)

Etymology

probably from the base of G2476 (ἵστημι);

Word family

• ἵστημι hístēmi

How the KJV renders it

• strait

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.