αὐτάρκεια
autárkeia · G841 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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self-content, contentment, contentment with what one has
The state of being content with one’s circumstances or lot in life
Examples1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment.
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what is adequate, what is sufficient, what is needed, adequacy
A state of adequacy or sufficiency
Examples2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace overflow to you, so that, always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔχωto have 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μετάwith, after 1
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
- πλεονεξία pleonexía · G4124 · greed, avarice, covetousness
- Greek noun denoting greed or the insatiable desire for more, the direct lexical opposite of contentment (αὐτάρκεια) which is satisfaction with what one has
In the other Testament 2 words
- שָׂבֵעַ sâbêaʻ · H7649 · satiated, satisfied (with days) > having lived long
- Hebrew adjective denoting the state of being satisfied or having enough, a genuine translation equivalent for the contentment/sufficiency sense of αὐτάρκεια
- דַּי day · H1767 · sufficiency, enough, in plenty
- Hebrew noun denoting sufficiency or 'enough,' a direct translation equivalent for the adequacy/competence sense of αὐτάρκεια
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Self-content, contentment, contentment with what one has25.83
- Used of an inner state of satisfaction with what one has, as of the contentment Paul commends alongside godliness in 1 Timothy 6:6.
- What is adequate, what is sufficient, what is needed, adequacy75.6
- Used of material sufficiency, as of God's grace made to overflow so that believers have all sufficiency in 2 Corinthians 9:8.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon αὐταρκείας, ἡ (αὐτάρκης, which see), a perfect condition of life, in which no aid or…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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