ἈΡΚΕΣΑΙ, ἀρκεσαι
ARKESAI, arkesai
Sounds Like: ar-KEH-sai
Translations: to be sufficient, to be content, to suffice, to satisfy, to be enough
From the root: ἈΡΚΈΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to be sufficient, adequate, or enough. It can also mean to be content or satisfied with something. It is often used impersonally, meaning 'it is enough' or 'it suffices'. It can also be used to indicate that something is satisfactory or meets a need.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G0714 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 3:22
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 18 — 6:173
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΡΚΈΩ.
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.
- ἈΡΚΟΥΝΤΑ — sufficient, enough, what is sufficient, what is enough
- ἨΡΚΕΙ — it was sufficient, it was enough, it sufficed
- ἨΡΚΕΣΕΝ — it was enough, it sufficed, it was sufficient, it was content, it was satisfied
- ἨΡΚΕΣΘΗΣΑΝ — they were content, they were satisfied, they were sufficient
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