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χρεία
chreía

employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution

46 occurrencesNew TestamentUncommon Word

Definition

From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary

Strong’s Definition

employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

use; need, necessity, requisiteness, Eph. 4:29; Heb. 7:11; personal need, an individual want, Acts 20:34; Rom. 12:13; Phil. 2:25; 4:16, 19; χρείαν ἔχω, to need, require, want, Mt. 6:8; 14:16; Mk. 2:25; Jn. 2:25; ἐστὶ χρεία, there is need, Lk. 10:42; τὰ πρὸς τὴν χρείαν, necessary things, Acts 28:10; a necessary business, affair, Acts 6:3

Source: Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

Translated in KJV as

businesslacknecessary(-ity)need(-ful)usewant

Etymology

from the base of G5530 (χράομαι) or G5534 (χρή);

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