noun · feminine

hikanotas

Greekἱκανότης (hikanotēs)

Strong’sG2426

sufficiency, ability, power

stem hikanot-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

adequacy1×

What it means

* ἱκανότης, -ητος, ἡ

(< ἱκανός),

sufficiency, ability (Plat.): II Co 3:5.†

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

Strong’s G2426 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhik-an-ot'-ace

ability

Fromfrom G2425;

King Jamessufficiency.

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

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	hikanotas1×ἱκανότης	hikanotais
object accusative	hikanotan	hikanotain
direct address vocative	hikanotar	hikanotair
of, belonging to genitive	hikanotau	hikanotaiu
to, for dative	hikanota	hikanotai

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

hikanotstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

hikanota 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

hikanotas“adequacy”subjectnominative singular1×

2 Corinthians 3:5“adequacy”ouk hoti apo heautoiu hikanois anō logizera tinem hōs ek heautoiu, alla tas hikanotas nu ek tou theou,Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.