ΙΚΑΝΟΣ, ικανος
IKANOS, ikanos
Sounds Like: ee-ka-NOS
Translations: sufficient, adequate, competent, able, worthy, enough, a lot, many
From the root: ΙΚΑΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something or someone as being sufficient, adequate, or competent for a particular purpose or task. It can refer to a quantity that is enough, or a person who is capable or worthy. It is often used to express that something is ample or abundant.
Inflection: Masculine, Nominative, Singular
Strong’s number: G2425 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:73
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 50:2
Codex Sinaiticus
- Job — 21:15
- Isaiah — 40:16
- Joel — 2:11
- Matthew — 3:11, 8:8
- Luke — 3:16, 7:6, 7:12
- Acts of the Apostles — 11:24, 20:37
- 1 Corinthians — 15:9
- 2 Corinthians — 2:16
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 26:237
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 8:13
Justin Martyr
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 3:11, 8:8
- Mark — 1:7
- Luke — 3:16, 7:6, 7:12
- Acts — 11:24, 20:37
- 1 Corinthians — 15:9
- 2 Corinthians — 2:16
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΙΚΑΝΟΣ.
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.
- ΙΚΑΝ — sufficient, enough, adequate, competent, worthy, considerable, many, much, a long time
- ΙΚΑΝΑ — sufficient, enough, adequate, worthy, competent, a sufficient amount, enough things
- ΙΚΑΝΑΙ — sufficient, enough, adequate, considerable, many, much
- ΙΚΑΝΑΙΣ — to/for sufficient, to/for adequate, to/for many, to/for enough, to/for competent
- ΙΚΑΝΑΣ — sufficient, enough, adequate, considerable, many, much, long
- ΙΚΑΝΗ — sufficient, enough, adequate, competent, worthy, able, considerable, a considerable
- ΙΚΑΝΗΝ — sufficient, enough, adequate, competent, worthy, able, a sufficient, an adequate
- ΙΚΑΝΟΙ — sufficient, enough, able, competent, worthy, many, considerable
- ΙΚΑΝΟΙΣ — sufficient, able, competent, worthy, fit, enough, considerable, many, much
- ΙΚΑΝΟΝ — sufficient, enough, adequate, competent, worthy, considerable, many, much, a sufficient thing, an adequate thing
- ΙΚΑΝΟΥ — of sufficient, of enough, of competent, of able, of worthy, of fit, of suitable, of considerable, of many, of much
- ΙΚΑΝΟΥΣ — sufficient, adequate, competent, worthy, able, enough
- ΙΚΑΝΩΣ — sufficiently, adequately, enough, well, greatly, abundantly
- ΙΚΑΝΩΤΑΤ — most sufficient, most able, most competent, very sufficient, very able, very competent, a most sufficient, an extremely able
- ΙΚΑΝΩΤΑΤΑ — most sufficient, most able, most competent, very sufficient, very able, very competent, most sufficiently, most ably, most competently, very sufficiently, very ably, very competently
- ΙΚΑΝΩΤΑΤΗ — most sufficient, most able, most competent, very sufficient, very able, very competent, a most sufficient (one), a most able (one), a most competent (one)
- ΙΚΑΝΩΤΑΤΟΙ — most sufficient, most competent, most able, most qualified, most worthy
- ΙΚΑΝΩΤΑΤΟΝ — most sufficient, very sufficient, most able, very able, most competent, very competent
- ΙΚΑΝΩΤΑΤΟΣ — most sufficient, most able, most competent, most adequate, very sufficient, very able, very competent, very adequate
- ΚΑΝΟΣ — sufficient, able, worthy, competent, enough, a sufficient one, an able one, a worthy one
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