ἈΝΑΓΚΗ, ἀναγκη
ANAGKĒ, anagkē
Sounds Like: ah-nahg-KAY
Translations: necessity, compulsion, distress, trouble, need, a necessity
From the root: ἈΝΑΓΚΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a state of necessity, compulsion, or distress. It can describe an unavoidable obligation or a difficult situation that causes hardship. It is often used to denote a pressing need or an unavoidable circumstance.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0318 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 103:8
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:104
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 0:18, 12:217
- Book 3 — 1:37, 5:81
- Book 4 — 6:137, 8:293
- Book 5 — 1:112, 1:114, 3:182
- Book 6 — 3:44, 9:172
- Book 8 — 4:111
- Book 10 — 10:191
- Book 14 — 13:360
- Book 15 — 9:303, 11:387
- Book 16 — 2:31, 11:397
- Book 18 — 6:186, 8:265
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 12:3
- Book Two — 1:1
- Book Three — 10:35
- Book Four — 3:29, 3:87, 7:46
- Book Five — 10:8
- Book Six — 1:78, 2:68, 3:21, 8:24
Justin Martyr
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Samuel — 22:2
- Psalms — 118:143
- Job — 7:11, 15:24, 18:14, 20:22, 36:19
- Wisdom — 19:4
- Letter of Jeremiah — 1:36
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 9 — 9:3
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 18:7
- Luke — 21:23
- Romans — 13:5
- 1 Corinthians — 9:16
- 1 Thessalonians — 3:7
- Hebrews — 9:16, 9:23
Twelve Disciples
- The Didache — 12:2
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
- ἈΝΑΓΚΑΙΣ — to necessity, in necessity, by necessity, to distress, in distress, by distress, to compulsion, in compulsion, by compulsion, to affliction, in affliction, by affliction
- ἈΝΑΓΚΑΣ — necessities, constraints, distresses, troubles, compulsions, needs
- 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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