Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'strait' occurs 23 times in the standard works.

8 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'strait' in the standard works and contain 34.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 4 minutes to read the entire list.

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3 Ne. 27:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 7:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 31:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 14:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 6 18 24
Gen. 0 1 1
Ex. 0 1 1
Deut. 0 3 3
Josh. 0 1 1
1 Sam. 1 1 2
2 Sam. 1 0 1
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 1 0 1
Job 1 5 6
Prov. 0 1 1
Isa. 1 0 1
Jer. 0 2 2
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 0 1 1
Micah 0 1 1
NT 4 11 15
BM 11 3 14
DC 2 0 2
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 23 32 55

Gen. 43:7
And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

Ex. 13:19
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.

Deut. 28:53
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

Deut. 28:55
So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

Deut. 28:57
And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

Josh. 6:1
Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.

1 Sam. 14:28
Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.

Job 12:23
He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

Job 18:7
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

Job 20:22
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

Job 36:16
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

Job 37:10
By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

Prov. 4:12
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

Jer. 19:9
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

Lam. 1:3
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

Ezek. 42:6
For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

Micah 2:7
O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?