Anankaios means “necessary” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H316 — acharchel (“Aharhel”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G316 ἀναγκαῖος (anagkaios) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. anagkaios (an-ang-kai`-os) adj. 1. necessary 2. (by implication) close (of kin) It has 13 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include necessary, near, needful, and necessity. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
anagkaios (an-ang-kai`-os) adj. 1. necessary 2. (by implication) close (of kin) [from G318] KJV: near, necessary, necessity, needful Root(s): G318
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G316. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
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Usage: ἀναγκαῖος, -αῖα, -αῖον (ἀνάγκη), [in LXX: Est.8:13, Wis.16:3, Sir prol.22, 2Ma.4:23 2Mac 9:21, 4Ma.1:2 * ;] __1. necessary: Act.13:46, 1Co.12:22, 2Co.9:5, Php.2:25, Tit.3:14, Heb.8:3; comp. -αιότερον, Php.1:24. __2. Of persons connected by bonds of nature or friendship, near, intimate (Field, Notes, 118; ΜΜ, VGT, see word): ἀ. φίλοι, Act.10:24.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render anagkaios, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G316 (ἀναγκαῖος) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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8 indexed usages in New Testament.
And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and he had called together his kinsmen and near friends.
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Three years afterward Jason sent Menelaus, the aforesaid Simon’s brother, to bear the money unto the king, and to put him in mind of certain necessary matters.
As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honor and good will. Returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:
For reason is necessary to everyone as a step to science: and more especially does it embrace the praise of prudence, the highest virtue.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
Mighty One in dominion, and by His greatness I swear to you. I know a mystery And have read the heavenly tablets, And have seen the holy books, And have found written therein and inscribed regarding them:
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G316.
And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and he had called together his kinsmen and near friends.
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
And let our's also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
Three years afterward Jason sent Menelaus, the aforesaid Simon’s brother, to bear the money unto the king, and to put him in mind of certain necessary matters.
As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honor and good will. Returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:
For reason is necessary to everyone as a step to science: and more especially does it embrace the praise of prudence, the highest virtue.
To the end that they, desiring food, Might for the ugly sight of the beasts sent among them Loath even that, which they must needs desire; But these, suffering penury for a short space, Might be made partakers of a strange taste.
Mighty One in dominion, and by His greatness I swear to you. I know a mystery And have read the heavenly tablets, And have seen the holy books, And have found written therein and inscribed regarding them:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G316, grouped by book.
Anankaios (Strong's G316) is a Greek word most simply glossed "necessary". anagkaios (an-ang-kai`-os) adj. 1. necessary 2. (by implication) close (of kin)
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's G316 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G316 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as necessary, near, needful, and necessity. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G316, with linked reader references where each row is available.