ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΣ, ἀναγκαις
ANAGKAIS, anagkais
Sounds Like: ah-nahng-KAI-ss
Translations: to necessity, in necessity, by necessity, to distress, in distress, by distress, to compulsion, in compulsion, by compulsion, to affliction, in affliction, by affliction
From the root: ἈΝΑΓΚΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a state of necessity, compulsion, or distress. It can denote an unavoidable obligation, a difficult situation, or a time of affliction. In its dative plural form, as seen in 'ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΣ', it often indicates the circumstances or means by which something occurs, such as 'in necessities' or 'by compulsions'.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0318 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 15:5
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΝΑΓΚΗ.
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.
- ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙ — necessities, constraints, compulsions, distresses, troubles, of necessity, by necessity, by force, by compulsion
- ἈΝΑΓΚΑΣ — necessities, constraints, distresses, troubles, compulsions, needs
- ἈΝΑΓΚΗ — necessity, compulsion, distress, trouble, need, a necessity
- ἈΝΑΓΚΗΝ — necessity, a necessity, compulsion, distress, constraint, need, trouble
- ἈΝΑΓΚΗΣ — of necessity, of distress, of compulsion, of trouble, of constraint
- ΤΗΝἈΝΑΓΚΗΝ — the necessity, a necessity, the need, a need, the compulsion, a compulsion, the distress, a distress
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