anankastōs

Strong’sG317

by force, necessarily

stem anankastō-once in the New Testamentnever changes form

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

* ἀναγκαστῶς

adv.,

necessarily or by constraint: opp. to ἑκουσίως, I Pe 5:2 (rare).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G317 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidan-ang-kas-toce'

compulsorily

Fromadverb from a derivative of G315;

King Jamesby constraint.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

Included with: ἀναγκ-αστός, ή, όν,
forced, constrained, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb -τῶςRefs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἑκουσίως, NT

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

under compulsion1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

anankastōs1×

1 Peter 5:2“under compulsion”… vi poimniem tou theou, episkoparōntois mē anankastōs alla hekousiōs kata theon, mēde aischrokerdōs …… of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not out of …