χρεία chreia

Greek word for “need” · Strong’s G5532 · used 49 times in 47 verses

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Meaning

χρεία, -ας, ἡ; 1. need, necessity:;

How it is translated

Glosses given for chreia in context, with how often each is used:

• need 40
• needs 6
• necessary 1
• task 1
• need was there 1

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Mark 2 (2), Luke 19 (2), John 13 (2), 1 Corinthians 12 (2), Ephesians 4 (2), Philippians 4 (2), 1 Thessalonians 4 (2), Matthew 3 (1), Matthew 6 (1), Matthew 9 (1)

Forms

• χρείαν 40
• χρείας 5
• χρεία 2
• χρείαις 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chreia more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἔτι eti “still” 5
• ἰατρός iatros “physician” 3
• κακῶς kakōs “badly” 3
• περί peri “about” 5
• ἀκούω akouō “to hear” 5
• διαρρήγνυμι diarrēgnumi “to tear” 2
• καθότι kathoti “as/just as” 2
• ἀναγκαῖος anagkaios “necessary” 2
• πούς pous “foot” 3
• ἀγαθός agathos “good” 3
• φωτίζω phōtizō “to illuminate” 2
• ἀδελφός adelphos “brother” 4

Key verses

The verses using chreia that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 10:42 — But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
• Acts 6:3 — Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
• Romans 12:13 — Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
• Ephesians 4:28 — Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
• Ephesians 4:29 — Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
• Philippians 4:19 — But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:9 — But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
• Hebrews 10:36 — For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
• 1 John 2:27 — But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things,…
• 1 John 3:17 — But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
• Revelation 3:17 — Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind,…
• Revelation 21:23 — And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

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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.