1) necessity, imposed either by the circumstances, or by law of duty regarding to one's advantage, custom, argument
2) calamity, distress, straits
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Citing in TDNT: 1:344, 55
G318
From G303 and the base of G43; constraint (literally or figuratively); by implication distress: - distress, must needs, (of) necessity (-sary), neededth, needful.
| Gloss | Section |
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| a trouble | 22.1 |
| b complete obligation | 71.30 |
| c inevitability | 71.38 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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