ἱκανός hikanos
Greek word for “sufficient” · Strong’s G2425 · used 39 times in 39 verses
Meaning
ἱκανός, -ή, -όν; (ἵκω, ἱκάνω, to reach, attain);
How it is translated
Glosses given for hikanos in context, with how often each is used:
- many 12
- long 6
- sufficient 4
- worthy 3
- fit 2
- large 2
- large — 1
- satisfactory 1
- considerable 1
- enough 1
- security 1
- great many 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acts | 18 | 1.0 | |
| Luke | 9 | 0.5 | |
| Matthew | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Mark | 3 | 0.3 | |
| 2 Corinthians | 3 | 0.7 | |
| 1 Corinthians | 2 | 0.3 | |
| 2 Timothy | 1 | 0.8 |
Chapters where it is used most
Acts 20 (3), Luke 7 (2), Luke 8 (2), Luke 23 (2), Acts 9 (2), Acts 11 (2), Acts 14 (2), Acts 19 (2), Acts 27 (2), 2 Corinthians 2 (2)
Forms
- ἱκανὸς 8
- ἱκανὸν 5
- ἱκανόν 3
- ἱκανοὶ 3
- ἱκανοῦ 2
- ἱκανός 2
- ἱκανῷ 2
- ἱκανῶν 2
- ἱκανοί 2
- ἱκανὰ 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with hikanos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- χρόνος chronos “time” 6
- ὄχλος ochlos “crowd” 6
- ὑπόδημα hupodēma “sandal” 3
- τε te “and/both” 5
- ἰσχυρός ischuros “strong” 3
- Παῦλος Paulos “Paul” 4
- στέγη stegē “roof” 2
- ἱμάς himas “leather strap” 2
- μέν men “on the other hand” 4
- παρά para “from/with/beside” 4
- ὑπό hupo “by/under” 4
- συνάγω sunagō “to assemble” 3
Key verses
The verses using hikanos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Matthew 3:11 — I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with…
- Luke 3:16 — John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he…
- Luke 7:6 — Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am…
- Luke 7:12 — Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of…
- Acts 11:26 — And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much…
- Acts 14:3 — Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their…
- Acts 19:26 — Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be…
- Acts 20:37 — And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him,
- 1 Corinthians 11:30 — For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
- 1 Corinthians 15:9 — For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
- 2 Corinthians 3:5 — Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
- 2 Timothy 2:2 — And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
See all 39 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.