Limitless Word
ἀνάγκηanánkē
GreekG31817 occurrences (KJV)

constraint (literally or figuratively); by implication, distress

KJV renders it: distress, must needs, (of) necessity(-sary), needeth, needful

Where it appears

  • Matt 18:7“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!
  • Luke 14:18They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’
  • Luke 21:23Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.
  • Luke 23:17Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast.
  • Rom 13:5Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.
  • 1 Cor 7:26I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.
  • 1 Cor 7:37But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well.
  • 1 Cor 9:16For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don’t preach the Good News.
  • 2 Cor 6:4but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
  • 2 Cor 9:7Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
  • 2 Cor 12:10Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
  • 1 Th 3:7for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
  • Phlm 1:14But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.
  • Heb 7:12For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.
  • Heb 9:16For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.
  • Heb 9:23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
  • Jude 1:3Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.