2001 Translation

ANAGKĒN, anagkēn

Sounds Like: ah-nahg-KAYN

Translations: necessity, a necessity, compulsion, distress, constraint, need, trouble

From the root: ἈΝΑΓΚΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a state of necessity, compulsion, or distress. It can denote an unavoidable obligation, a binding force, or a difficult situation that imposes a constraint. It is often used to describe circumstances that are beyond one's control.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G0318 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 106:9

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:104

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 35:249
• Book Two — 35:249

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 5:60, 15:316
• Book 3 — 1:22, 8:223
• Book 4 — 4:74, 8:297
• Book 5 — 1:110, 2:145
• Book 6 — 11:219, 14:334
• Book 7 — 8:193
• Book 11 — 5:138, 5:178
• Book 12 — 6:273, 6:280, 10:403
• Book 16 — 9:290, 10:324, 11:362
• Book 18 — 6:148
• Book 20 — 2:42, 9:209

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 10:16, 20:3
• Book Four — 3:2, 11:8
• Book Five — 5:15, 8:9, 11:4, 11:38, 12:7
• Book Six — 9:25
• Book Seven — 3:17, 6:33, 6:50, 8:79

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 30:1, 43:1
• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:6

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 13:74, 31:153, 34:171, 49:256, 56:291, 65:338

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Esther — 4:17
• Tobit — 3:6
• 2 Maccabees — 15:2
• 3 Maccabees — 5:6
• 4 Maccabees — 5:13, 5:16, 8:14, 8:22, 8:24
• Psalms of Solomon — 5:8
• Wisdom — 17:17

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 9 — 14:4, 16:2

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 14:18
• 1 Corinthians — 7:26, 7:37
• Philemon — 1:14
• Hebrews — 7:27
• Jude — 1:3

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΝΑΓΚΗ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙ — necessities, constraints, compulsions, distresses, troubles, of necessity, by necessity, by force, by compulsion
• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΣ — to necessity, in necessity, by necessity, to distress, in distress, by distress, to compulsion, in compulsion, by compulsion, to affliction, in affliction, by affliction
• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΣ — necessities, constraints, distresses, troubles, compulsions, needs
• ἈΝΑΓΚΗ — necessity, compulsion, distress, trouble, need, a necessity
• ἈΝΑΓΚΗΣ — of necessity, of distress, of compulsion, of trouble, of constraint
• ΤΗΝἈΝΑΓΚΗΝ — the necessity, a necessity, the need, a need, the compulsion, a compulsion, the distress, a distress

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