Definition

to necessitate

Etymology

from G318 (ἀνάγκη);

Word family

• ἀνάγκη anánkē

How the KJV renders it

• compel
• constrain

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.