Words the Bible translates as must
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- deiδεῖit is necessary; one must, ought, has to (an impersonal verb that names a binding necessity laid on a person or event)
- anagkēἀνάγκηnecessity: something that must be so or must be done, whether it follows by reason, is owed as a duty, or presses on a person as a compulsion
+1 more meaning
- distress: the pressure of hard and painful circumstances; a tight, threatening situation that hems a person in
- gleukosγλεῦκοςsweet new wine: freshly pressed, still-fermenting grape wine at its sweetest young stage, prized for its taste yet potent enough to make a person drunk
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