Strong's Concordance
epanagkes: necessary, of necessity
Original Word: ἐπάναγκεςPart of Speech: Adverb
Transliteration: epanagkes
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-an'-ang-kes)
Short Definition: necessarily
Definition: necessarily; as subst: necessary things.
HELPS Word-studies
1876 epánagkes (an adverb, derived from 1909 /epí, "on, fitting" and 318 /anágkē, "necessity") – properly, what seems necessary (suitable), given the particular situation (used only in Ac 15:28).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1876: ἐπάναγκεςἐπάναγκες (
ἀνάγκη (hence, literally,
on compulsion)),
necessarily:
πλήν τῶν ἐπάναγκες τούτων, besides these things which are necessarily imposed,
Acts 15:28 (
Buttmann, 27. (24)). (
Herodotus,
Andocides (