Types, Symbols & Patterns / Strait

Biblical Types, Symbols & Patterns

Strait

Claim-level biblical evidence review with contextual controls, canonical relationships, and preserved interpretive history.

Ordinary Description, Metaphor

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“Strait” as archaic narrow/constricted wording, with Matthew 7 context control

The older English word “strait” denotes narrowness or constriction; Matthew 7 uses narrow/constricted gate-and-way imagery for the route leading to life rather than establishing “strait” as a generic symbol for difficulty.

Context control: The Matthean image is specifically the narrow gate and constrained way leading to life; other English occurrences of “strait” may represent different underlying terms and contexts.

Matthew 7:13–14 uses narrow/constricted gate-and-way imagery for entrance to life; the KJV’s “strait” is an archaic English rendering of narrowness, so the legacy “beset with difficulties” wording requires lexical reclassification rather than treatment as a free-standing biblical symbol.

Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretation
Status
Requires Reclassification
Public wording
Category Or Reclassification Notice
Classification
Metaphor, Ordinary Description

Scope: The Matthean image is specifically the narrow gate and constrained way leading to life; other English occurrences of “strait” may represent different underlying terms and contexts.

Residual uncertainty: No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.

Scripture

Evidence sources
  • Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1 (V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED)

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