noun · feminine
autarkeias
Strong’sG841
self-sufficiency, independence
stem autarkei-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
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.
* αὐτάρκεια, -ας, ἡ
(< αὐτάρκης, q.v.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G841 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidow-tar'-ki-ah
self-satisfaction, i.e. (abstractly) contentedness, or (concretely) a competence
Fromfrom G842;
King Jamescontentment, sufficiency.
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
self-sufficiency, independence, Refs 5th c.BC+
II concrete, a sufficiency, Refs 3rd c.AD+; a competence, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | autarkeias | autarkeiais |
| object accusative | autarkeian1×αὐτάρκειαν | autarkeiain |
| direct address vocative | autarkeiar | autarkeiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | autarkeiau1×αὐταρκείας | autarkeiaiu |
| to, for dative | autarkeia | autarkeiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
autarkeia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
autarkeian“sufficiency”objectaccusative singular1×
2 Corinthians 9:8“sufficiency”… vin, hina en pante pantote pantan autarkeian echarōntois perisseuaveiō eis pantem ergem agathem;… abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
autarkeiau“contentment”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Timothy 6:6… de porismos megos tas eusebeias meta autarkeiau;Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.