Definition

necessary; by implication, close (of kin)

Etymology

from G318 (ἀνάγκη);

Word family

• ἀνάγκη anánkē

How the KJV renders it

• near
• necessary
• necessity
• needful

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.