Stenochoreo means “distress” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4729 — miqtar in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4729 στενοχωρέω (stenochoreo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. stenochoreo (sten-okh-o-reh'-o) v. 1. to hem in closely 2. (figuratively) cramp It has 7 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include straitened. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
stenochoreo (sten-okh-o-reh'-o) v. 1. to hem in closely 2. (figuratively) cramp [from a compound of G4728 and G5561] KJV: distress, straiten Root(s): G4728, G5561 See also: G4730
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4729. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to press upon
Usage: στενο-χωρέω, -ῶ (στενός + χῶρος, space) [in LXX: Jos.17:15 (אוּץ), Jdg.16:16 (אָלַץ pi.), Isa.28:19 (20) (קָצַר) Isa.49:19 (צָרַר), 4Ma.11:11 * ;] __1. to be straitened (cf. Isa.49:19); metaphorically, to be anxious (Hipp., al.). __2. In late writers, trans., to straiten, compress (LXX, Diod., al.; π. ap. MM, xxiii): pass., trop., 2Co.4:8 6:12.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render stenochoreo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4729 (στενοχωρέω) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
4 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Joshua said to them, If thou be a great people, go up to the forest, and clear the land for thyself, if Mount Ephraim be too little for thee.
And it came to pass as she pressed him sore with her words continually, and straitened him, that his spirit failed almost to death.
ye that are distressed; we cannot fight, but we are ourselves too weak for you to be gathered.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said,
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4729.
And Joshua said to them, If thou be a great people, go up to the forest, and clear the land for thyself, if Mount Ephraim be too little for thee.
And it came to pass as she pressed him sore with her words continually, and straitened him, that his spirit failed almost to death.
ye that are distressed; we cannot fight, but we are ourselves too weak for you to be gathered.
For thy desert and marred and ruined places shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that devoured thee shall be removed far from thee.
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4729, grouped by book.
Stenochoreo (Strong's G4729) is a Greek word most simply glossed "distress". stenochoreo (sten-okh-o-reh'-o) v. 1. to hem in closely 2. (figuratively) cramp
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G4729 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4729 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as straitened. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4729, with linked reader references where each row is available.