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straÌ„t, straÌ„t´'n, straÌ„t´il: The word “strait†and its compounds are used in English Versions of the Bible in the literal sense of “narrow†(car, ; ; muÌ„caÌ„kÌ£, ;'aÌ„cal, ) and in the figurative sense of “strict†(shaÌ„bha‛, ; sÌ£aÌ„ghar, ; caÌ„rar, “to be distressed,†parallel; yaÌ„car, ; meÌ„car, ). In Apocrypha the verb “straitened†occurs in Susanna verse 22. In the New Testament we have stenoÌs ( f parallel, the Revised Version (British and American) “narrowâ€; poluÌs, “muchâ€; so the Revised Version (British and American) ; ; suneÌchoÌ„, “to urge,†“hold together,†; ). It occurs in its superlative form in , “After the straitest (akribeÌstatos, “most exact,†“scrupulousâ€) sect of our religion,†i.e. “the most precise and rigorous in interpreting the Mosaic Law, and in observing the more minute precepts of the Law and of tradition†(Thayer, Lexicon, under the word; compare ). See also STRAIGHT, STRAIGHTWAY.