Lexical Summary
hikanotés: Sufficiency, adequacy, competence
Original Word: ἱκανότης
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: hikanotés
Pronunciation: hee-kan-ot'-ace
Phonetic Spelling: (hik-an-ot'-ace)
KJV: sufficiency
NASB: adequacy
Word Origin: [from G2425 (ἱκανός - many)]
1. ability
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
sufficiency.
From hikanos; ability -- sufficiency.
see GREEK hikanos
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 2426 hikanótēs – sufficiency bringing competence (ability). This noun is only used in 2 Cor 3:5. See 2425 (hikanos).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
hikanosDefinitionsufficiency
NASB Translationadequacy (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2426: ἱκανότηςἱκανότης,
ἱκανητος,
ἡ,
sufficiency, ability or competency to do a thing:
2 Corinthians 3:5. (
Plato,
Lysias (p. 215. a.) quoted in
Pollux; (others).)