ἈΝΑΓΚΩΝ, ἀναγκων
ANAGKŌN, anagkōn
Sounds Like: ah-nang-KOHN
Translations: of necessities, of distresses, of constraints, of troubles, of compulsions
From the root: ΑΝΑΓΚΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is a noun referring to a state of necessity, compulsion, distress, or trouble. It denotes something that is unavoidable or a situation that causes hardship. As a genitive plural, it indicates possession or origin, often translated as 'of necessities' or 'of distresses'. It can be used to describe the source or nature of a difficult situation.
Inflection: Genitive, Plural, Feminine
Strong’s number: G318 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 56:8
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 17 — 4:76
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
- Mandate 8 — 1:10
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΝΑΓΚΗ.
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.
- ἈΑΝ — necessity, a necessity, need, distress, compulsion
- ἈΝΑΓΚΑΣΤΩΣ — necessarily, by constraint, unwillingly, compulsorily
- ΑΝΑΓΚΑΙΣ — necessities, constraints, distresses, troubles, needs, compulsions, obligations
- ΑΝΑΓΚΑΣ — necessity, compulsion, distress, trouble, a necessity, a compulsion
- ΑΝΑΓΚΕΝ — necessity, compulsion, distress, trouble, constraint, a necessity, a compulsion
- ΑΝΑΓΚΗ — necessity, compulsion, distress, need, constraint, a necessity
- ΑΝΑΓΚΗΝ — necessity, a necessity, compulsion, a compulsion, distress, a distress, need, a need
- ΑΝΑΓΚΗΣ — of necessity, of compulsion, of distress, of trouble, of constraint, of tribulation
- ΑΝΑΓΚΩΝ — of necessity, of distress, of compulsion, of constraint, of trouble, of affliction, of need
- ΓΚΗΝ — necessity, a necessity, compulsion, distress, need, constraint
- ἘΠΑΝΑΓΚΕΣ — necessary, of necessity, necessarily, essential, unavoidable, urgent
- ΕΠΑΝΑΓΚΑΙΣ — to necessity, to compulsion, to distress, to tribulation, to constraint, to obligation, to need, to pressure
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