narrow
16 occurrences across the corpus
King James Version
And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
KJV Apocrypha (Eastern Orthodox Additions)
But put the case the entrance were narrow, and like a river;
Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule it? if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?
The entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, like as if there were a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water:
Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, full of sorrow and travail: they are but few and evil, full of perils,: and very painful.
And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river.
1 Enoch
And, binding it hand and foot, he cast it into a valley; a valley narrow, deep, stupendous, and gloomy.
OT Pseudepigrapha
The country is encircled by a natural fence and is very difficult to attack and cannot be assailed by large forces, owing to the narrow passes, with theft overhanging precipices and deep ravines, and the rugged character of the mountainous regions which surround all the land.