2001 Translation

ANAGKAION, anagkaion

Sounds Like: ah-nang-KAI-on

Translations: necessary, important, essential, fitting, a necessary thing

From the root: ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes something that is necessary, unavoidable, or indispensable. It can also refer to something that is proper, fitting, or closely related, such as a close friend or relative. It is often used impersonally to mean 'it is necessary' or 'it is important'.

Inflection: Nominative, Accusative, or Vocative; Singular; Neuter

Strong’s number: G0316 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:110, 1:197, 1:205, 1:254

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Trallians — 2:2

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 1:4, 41:287
• Book Two — 1:4, 41:287

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 7:177
• Book 3 — 9:235
• Book 4 — 4:68, 8:197
• Book 7 — 13:319, 14:369
• Book 8 — 2:26, 5:132, 6:155
• Book 9 — 10:208, 11:242
• Book 10 — 8:151
• Book 11 — 5:152
• Book 12 — 2:37, 2:57, 5:245
• Book 14 — 10:186, 15:396
• Book 15 — 3:58, 5:135, 8:298, 9:333
• Book 20 — 10:224

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 2:21
• Book Seven — 3:6, 6:2, 7:18, 8:131

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 56:8, 56:18, 58:10, 67:11

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 65:339, 74:413

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Maccabees — 9:21

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 13:46
• 2 Corinthians — 9:5
• Philippians — 2:25
• Hebrews — 8:3

From the same root

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

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.

• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΑ — necessary, essential, important, urgent, unavoidable, a necessity, the necessities
• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΑΙΣ — (to) necessary, (for) necessary, (to) things necessary, (for) things necessary
• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΑΝ — necessary, essential, urgent, a necessary thing
• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΟΣ — necessary, essential, important, a necessity, a relative, a kinsman, a friend
• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΟΤΑΤΗ — most necessary, very necessary, most important, very important, a most necessary thing, a most important thing
• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΟΤΑΤΟΙΣ — to the most necessary, to the most important, to the most urgent, to the most essential
• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΟΤΑΤΟΝ — most necessary, most important, most urgent, a most necessary thing, a most important thing
• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΟΤΑΤΟΣ — most necessary, most important, most urgent, most essential
• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΟΤΑΤΟΥΣ — most necessary, most important, most urgent, most essential
• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΟΤΑΤΩΝ — of the most necessary, of the most important, of the most essential, of the most urgent, of the most indispensable
• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΟΤΕΡΟΝ — more necessary, more important, more urgent, a more necessary thing
• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΩΝ — of necessary things, of essential things, of important things, of urgent things, of indispensable things
• ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΩΣ — necessarily, of necessity, by constraint, inevitably, urgently, indispensably
• ΤἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΑ — necessary things, necessities, needs, a necessity

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