Shalom, and Happy Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets)
A thought that crossed my mind this morning while studying...

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Some of the wise will stumble, so that they may be refined, purified and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.

~Daniel 11:35, NIV

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Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What do you make? or of your work, He has no hands?

~Isaiah 45:9, KJV

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He will be like a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the Lord in righteousness.

~Malachi 3:3, HCS

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“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy[a] that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.

~Matthew 7:13, ESV

Now... from a previous study with a sister back east, she looked up the Strong's definition of 'narrow'. And found that her concordance had the definition of 'narrow' to be 'tribulation'. I found this:

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Greek Dictionary (Lexicon-Concordance)

Key Word Studies (Translations-Definitions-Meanings)

» G4728 «


#4728 στενός stenos {sten-os'}

probably from the base of G2476; TDNT - 7:604,1077; adj

—Greek Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)

1) narrow, strait

—Thayer's (New Testament Greek-English Lexicon)

Probably from the base of G2476; narrow (from obstacles standing close about):—strait.

—Strong's (Greek Dictionary of the New Testament)

#4728.
στενο´ς
stenos; a prim. word; narrow:—
NASB - narrow(2), small(1).

—NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries
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AV - strait 3; 3
strait Matthew 7:13, 14. Luke 13:24.
—Exhaustive Concordance (KJV Translation Frequency & Location)


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be distressed, be narrow, be straitened in straits, be vexed

A primitive root; to press (intransitive), i.e. Be narrow; figuratively, be in distress -- be distressed, be narrow, be straitened (in straits), be vexed.


Something to think about...

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~MW