χρεία
chreia
“need”
Definition
employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution
from the base of G5530 (χράομαι) or G5534 (χρή);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
G:N-F
Greek Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
χρεία appears 47 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.”
You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.
Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.”
Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
At this, the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “Why do we need any more witnesses?
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