KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Of little width; restricted, confined, or hard-pressed. Sense 2: To contract or make less wide.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Numbers 22:26
Complete exact-word concordance
And the angel of the Lord went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
And the Angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrowe place, where was no way to turne, either to the right hand, or to the left.
And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
And Ioshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee vp to the wood countrey, and cut downe for thy selfe there in the land of the Perizzites, and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
1611 marginal noteOr Rephaims.
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
And for the house he made windowes of narrow lights.
1611 marginal noteOr, windowes broad within and narrow without: or, skewed and closed.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
For an whore is a deepe ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
1611 marginal noteChap.22.14.
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction shall euen now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee vp, shall bee farre away.
And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
And there were narrow windows to the litle chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windowes were round about inward: and vpon ech post were palme-trees.
1611 marginal noteHeb. closed.
1611 marginal noteOr, galleries, or porches.
1611 marginal noteOr, within.
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
The doore-posts and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, ouer against the doore sieled with wood round about, and from the ground vp to the windows, & the windows were couered.
1611 marginal noteHeb. sieling of wood.
1611 marginal noteOr, and the ground vnto the windowes.
And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.
And there were narrow windowes and Palme-trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and vpon the side chambers of the house, and thicke plankes.
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth vnto life, and few there be that finde it.
1611 marginal noteOr, how.
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