Words the Bible translates as necessity
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- chreiaχρείαneed: the lack of something necessary, the thing lacked, or the matter that must be attended to
- 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
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- distress: the pressure of hard and painful circumstances; a tight, threatening situation that hems a person in
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