ἘΠΑΝΑΓΚΕΣ, ἐπαναγκες
EPANAGKES, epanagkes
Sounds Like: eh-pan-AN-kes
Translations: necessary, of necessity, necessarily, essential, unavoidable, urgent
From the root: ΑΝΑΓΚΗ
Part of Speech: Adverb
Explanation: This word is an adverb meaning 'of necessity' or 'necessarily'. It indicates something that is required, unavoidable, or essential. It is often used to describe actions or circumstances that are compelled by nature, law, or a strong obligation. In some contexts, it can also imply urgency or a pressing need.
Inflection: Does not inflect
Strong’s number: G1837 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 11:8
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 16 — 11:365
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Acts — 15:28
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
- ἈΝΑΓΚΩΝ — of necessities, of distresses, of constraints, of troubles, of compulsions
- 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
- ΕΠΑΝΑΓΚΑΙΣ — to necessity, to compulsion, to distress, to tribulation, to constraint, to obligation, to need, to pressure
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