Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words


Necessity (-ties)

  1. ananke
  2. chreia


1.     Necessity (-ties)

ananke signifies
(a) "a necessity," what must needs be (see NEEDS), translated "necessity" (in some mss. in Luke_23:17) in 1_Cor_7:37; 1_Cor_9:16; 2_Cor_9:7 (with ek "out of"); Php_1:14 (with kata, "according to"); Heb_7:12; Heb_9:16;
(b) "distress, pain," translated "necessities" in 2_Cor_6:4; 2_Cor_12:10. See ananke_under_DISTRESS, and the synonymous words there, and NEEDS, NEEDFUL (also CONSTRAIN).

See also : ananke in other topics


2.     Necessity (-ties)

chreia "a need," and almost always so translated, is used in the plural in Acts_20:34, "necessities;" Rom_12:13, RV (AV, "necessity"); in Php_4:16, AV, "necessity," RV, "need." See NEED, NEEDFUL.

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