UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: to live under restrictions, to be restricted, to be confined

Semantic entry: 37.18

Semantic domains: Control, Rule

Subdomains: Control, Restrain

Definition: to be under severe limitations or restrictions

Notes: In a number of languages it may be more meaningful to render RV CO2 6:12 · LV CO2 6:12 · Read together CO2 6:12 as ‘it is not that we impose restrictions on you; it is you yourselves who are doing it.’ For another interpretation of στενοχωρέομαι in RV CO2 6:12 · LV CO2 6:12 · Read together CO2 6:12 as part of an idiom, see 25.54: σπλάγχνον / 25.54: στενοχωρέω.

Forms: στενοχωρέομαι[a]

Sense 2: to be in great trouble, to be hemmed in with difficulty

Semantic entry: 22.19

Semantic domains: Trouble, Hardship, Relief, Favorable Circumstances

Subdomains: Experience Trouble, Hardship

Definition: to be in serious circumstances, with the implication of no escape or way out

Forms: στενοχωρέομαι[b]

Sense 3: to not respond with affection to someone, to close one’s heart to

Semantic entry: 25.54

Semantic domains: Attitudes and Emotions

Subdomains: Love, Affection, Compassion

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to be restricted in the bowels) to restrict one’s affection for someone

Notes: In RV CO2 6:12 · LV CO2 6:12 · Read together CO2 6:12 it is also possible to understand στενοχωρέομαι as meaning ‘to live with severe restrictions’ (see 37.18: στενοχωρέω), and σπλάγχνα may be interpreted as a psychological faculty of intent and feeling (see 26.11: κοιλία / 26.11: νεφρός / 26.11: σπλάγχνον).

Forms: στενοχωρέομαι[c]

Collocations: στενοχωρέομαι ἐν τοῖς σπλάγχνοις