autarkos

Strong’sG842

self-sufficient, contented, satisfied

stem autark-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.

αὐτάρκης, -ες

(< αὐτός, ἀρκέω), [in LXX: Pr 24:31 (30:8) (חֹק), Si 5:1 11:24 34 (31):28 40:18, IV Mac 9:9*;]

as in cl., in philosophical sense, self-sufficient, independent; subjectively, contented: Phl 4:11 (in non-lit. π., the word means simply enough, sufficient; MM, s.v.).†

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

Strong’s G842 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidow-tar'-kace

self-complacent, i.e. contented

Fromfrom G846 and G714;

King Jamescontent.

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

αὐτάρκ-ης, ες,
(ἀρκέω) sufficient in oneself, self-supporting, independent of others, ἀνθρώπου σῶμα ἓν οὐδὲν αὔ. ἐστινRefs 5th c.BC+; εἰς εὐδαιμονίαν, of ἀρετή, Refs 5th c.BC+helping itself, acting instinctively, Refs 4th c.BC+; αὐ. βοή a self-reliant shout, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἰκία -έστερον ἑνός, πόλις δ᾽ οἰκίαςRefs 4th c.BC+; σῶμα αὔ. πρός τι strong enough for a thing, Refs 5th c.BC+: with infinitive, able of oneself to do a thing, εἰ γὰρ αὐτάρκη τὰ ψηφίσματα ἦν ἢ ὑμᾶς ἀναγκάζειν κτλ.Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb -κως, ἔχεινRefs 4th c.BC+: superlative -έστατα, ζῆνRefs 5th c.BC+
II sufficient in quantity, ἀργύριον αὔ. εἰς σιτωνίανRefs 1st c.AD+; ὄξους τὸ -έστατονRefs 2nd c.AD+adverb -κως sufficiently, Refs 1st 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.

content1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	autarkos1×αὐτάρκης	autarkas	autarkem	autarkois	autarkais	autarkeim
object accusative	autarkon	autarkan		autarkoin	autarkain
direct address vocative	autarkor	autarkar		autarkoir	autarkair
of, belonging to genitive	autarkou	autarkau	autarkeu	autarkoiu	autarkaiu	autarkeiu
to, for dative	autarko	autarka	autarke	autarkoi	autarkai	autarkei

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

autarkstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

autark 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

autarkos“content”subjectnominative singular1×

Philippians 4:11… mis gar mathama en hei amō autarkos arō;… for I have learned to be content regardless of my circumstances.