Stenochoria means “anguish” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4730 — miqtereth (“censer”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4730 στενοχωρία (stenochoria) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. stenochoria (sten-okh-o-ree'-ah) n. 1. narrowness of room 2. (figuratively) calamity It has 16 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include anguish and distress. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
stenochoria (sten-okh-o-ree'-ah) n. 1. narrowness of room 2. (figuratively) calamity [from a compound of G4728 and G5561] KJV: anguish, distress Root(s): G4728, G5561
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4730. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
hardship
Usage: στενοχωρία, -ας, ἡ (see supr.) [in LXX for צוֹק, etc. ;] narrowness of space, want of room (Thuc., al.). Metaphorical (Ken., Polyb., Deu.28:53, Wis.5:3, al.), difficulty, distress: θλίψις καὶ (ἢ) σ., Rom.2:9 8:35 (EV, anguish); pl. (cf. Bl., § 32, 6; WM, 220), 2Co.6:4 12:10.† SYN.: θλίψις, q.v (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render stenochoria, 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, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. 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 G4730 (στενοχωρία) appears 12 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.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
6 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, all that he has given thee, in thy straitness and thy affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee.
so as not to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in thy straitness, and in thy affliction, with which thine enemies shall afflict thee in all thy cities.
and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the want of all things, secretly in thy straitness, and in thy affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee in thy cities.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment, and was made lord of Egypt;
and gave them exhortation, saying, Ye yourselves know what great things I, and my brethren, and my father’s house, have done for the laws and the sanctuary, the battles also and troubles which we have seen,
And thou didst promise, out of love to the house of Israel, that should we fall away from thee, and become afflicted, and then come to this house and pray, thou wouldest hear our prayer.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
and so good hap shall not be your portion. And now, know ye that ye are prepared for the day of destruction: wherefore do not hope to live, ye sinners, but ye shall depart and die; for ye know no ransom; for ye are prepared for the day of the great judgement, for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4730.
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, all that he has given thee, in thy straitness and thy affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee.
so as not to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in thy straitness, and in thy affliction, with which thine enemies shall afflict thee in all thy cities.
and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the want of all things, secretly in thy straitness, and in thy affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee in thy cities.
and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and anguish, and darkness so that one cannot see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a time.
Drink this first. Act quickly, O land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali, and the rest inhabiting the seacoast, and the land beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.
The vision of the quadrupeds in the desert. In affliction and distress, where are the lion and lion’s whelp, thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps, there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment, and was made lord of Egypt;
and gave them exhortation, saying, Ye yourselves know what great things I, and my brethren, and my father’s house, have done for the laws and the sanctuary, the battles also and troubles which we have seen,
And thou didst promise, out of love to the house of Israel, that should we fall away from thee, and become afflicted, and then come to this house and pray, thou wouldest hear our prayer.
And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit Shall say within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision, And a proverb of reproach:
Be not overwise in doing thy business; And boast not thyself in the time of thy distress.
and so good hap shall not be your portion. And now, know ye that ye are prepared for the day of destruction: wherefore do not hope to live, ye sinners, but ye shall depart and die; for ye know no ransom; for ye are prepared for the day of the great judgement, for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4730, grouped by book.
Stenochoria (Strong's G4730) is a Greek word most simply glossed "anguish". stenochoria (sten-okh-o-ree'-ah) n. 1. narrowness of room 2. (figuratively) calamity
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's G4730 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4730 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as anguish and distress. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 6 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G4730, with linked reader references where each row is available.