straiten 4729 # stenochoreo {sten-okh-o-reh'-o}; from the same as 4730; to hem in closely, i.e. (figuratively) cramp: -- distress, {straiten}.[ql straiten 4912 # sunecho {soon-ekh'-o}; from 4862 and 2192; to hold together, i.e. to compress (the ears, with a crowd or siege) or arrest (a prisoner); figuratively, to compel, perplex, afflict, preoccupy: -- constrain, hold, keep in, press, lie sick of, stop, be in a strait, {straiten}, be taken with, throng.[ql ~~~~~~