adjective
stenas
Strong’sG4728
narrow
stem sten-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
στενός, -ή, -όν
[in LXX for צַר, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4728 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsten-os'
narrow (from obstacles standing close about)
Fromprobably from the base of G2476;
King Jamesstrait.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect στεινός, ή, όν, Aeolic dialect στένος Refs 7th c.BC+:— narrow, opposed to εὐρύς, πλατύς, Refs 5th c.BC+; ψαλίς Refs 5th c.BC+; πόροςRefs 5th c.BC+; ἐν στενῷ, Ionic dialect στεινῷ, in a narrow space, Refs 5th c.BC+. ; ποιεῖν τὸν δῆμον εὐρὺν καὶ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; πόροι, φλέβες, Refs 5th c.BC+; κεφαλή, πόδες, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 substantive, τὰ σ. the narrows, straits, of a pass, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a sea, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the straits of Gibraltar, Refs 1st c.BC+; so τὸ σ. the strait Refs 5th c.BC+; also ἡ στενή a narrow strip of land, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ σ. passes, defiles, Refs 5th c.BC+
II metaphorically, close, confined, ἀπειληθέντες ἐς στεινόν driven into a corner, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 scanty, petty, Refs 5th c.BC+; small-minded, narrow-minded, in adverb comparative, Refs 3rd c.AD+
II.3 of sound and style, thin, meagre, Refs 4th c.BC+; hard to pronounce, συλλαβὴ σ. καὶ δύστομος Refs 5th c.BC+, στενότερος in Refs 5th c.BC+; and στενοτάτου is required by the metre in Refs 2nd c.BC+; the form στενώτερος is however found in Refs 5th c.BC+
III adverb, στενῶς διακεῖσθαι to be in difficulties, LXX+3rd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | stenos | stenas1×στενὴ | stenem | stenois | stenais | steneim |
| object accusative | stenon | stenan | stenoin | stenain | ||
| direct address vocative | stenor | stenar | stenoir | stenair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | stenou | stenau2×στενῆς | steneu | stenoiu | stenaiu | steneiu |
| to, for dative | steno | stena | stene | stenoi | stenai | stenei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
sten is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
stenas“narrow”subjectnominative singular1×
Matthew 7:14hoti stenas tas pulas kai thliborēntas tas hodas …But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life …
stenau“narrow”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Matthew 7:13Eiserchavar dia tau stenau pulau; hoti plateias tas pulas kai …Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate …
Luke 13:24Agōnizovōr eiserchara dia tau stenau thurau, hoti pollois, legamō vi, zētali …… every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you …