'Straits' in the Bible

Whenever they marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had warned, and as the LORD had sworn to them; and they were in sore straits.

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: all her pursuers have overtaken her within the straits.

but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful.