G5532 – chreia – χρεία – a need, necessity
- Strong’s ID:
- G5532
- Greek Word:
- χρεία
- Transliteration:
- chreia
- Pronunciation:
- khri’-ah
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Etymology:
- from the base of G5530 or G5534
- Usage Count:
- 49
- Search:
- Find “chreia” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
a need, necessity
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from the base of G5530 or G5534; employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution:—business, lack, necessary(-ity), need(-ful), use, want.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) necessity, need
2) duty, business
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.