στενῆς [3 verses](adj sg fem gen) "Strait" is stenos, which means "narrow", "narrows", "straits", "close", "confined", "scanty", "petty", "small-minded", "narrow-minded", "thin or meagre [of sound and style]," and, as an adverb "[to be] in difficulties."  - The term translated as "strait" primarily means "narrow," but it is not a positive term in Greek having many negative associations including "small minded" and "confined."