ἐπάναγκες
epánankes · G1876 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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necessary, indispensable
Pertaining to being necessary and indispensable to the occurrence of some event
ExamplesActs 15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials:
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὗτοςthis 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀπέχωto receive in full, to be far, to abstain 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πλήνbut 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 1 word
- ἑκουσίως hekousíōs · G1596 · willing, willingly, of one’s own free will
- ἑκουσίως means 'voluntarily' or 'willingly,' expressing action done by free choice rather than by compulsion or necessity. This stands as the lexical opposite of ἐπάναγκες ('necessarily, by compulsion')—the contrast between voluntary action and compelled/necessary action.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Necessary, indispensable71.39
- This adverb describes what is required as an essential matter, used of the Jerusalem council's decision to lay no greater burden on Gentile believers than a short list of essential requirements — "it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials" (Acts 15:28).
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ἀνάγκη (hence, literally, on compulsion)), necessarily: πλήν τῶν ἐπάναγκες τούτων,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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