Dictionaries :: Necessity (-ties)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Necessity (-ties):

signifies

(a) "a necessity," what must needs be (see NEEDS), translated "necessity" (in some mss. in Luk 23:17) in 1Cr 7:37; 9:16; 2Cr 9:7 (with ek "out of"); Phm 1:14 (with kata, "according to"); Hbr 7:12; 9:16;

(b) "distress, pain," translated "necessities" in 2Cr 6:4; 12:10.
See DISTRESS, No. 1, and the synonymous words there, and NEEDS, NEEDFUL (also CONSTRAIN, Note).

Necessity (-ties):

"a need," and almost always so translated, is used in the plural in Act 20:34, "necessities;" Rom 12:13, RV (AV, "necessity"); in Phl 4:16, AV, "necessity," RV, "need."
See NEED, NEEDFUL.