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Thompson Chain Reference
• Necessities, Spiritual
Dictionaries
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Necessity
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Perseverance: Necessity of
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Necessity
King James Dictionary
• Necessity
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Necessity
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Necessity
Webster Dictionary
• Necessity
• Necessities
• Necessitied
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Necessity
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Necessity, Doctrine of
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Necessity
Lexicons
• ܐܰܢܰܢܩܺܐ
• ܣܽܘܢܩܳܢܳܐ
• ܣܢܺܝܩܽܘܬ݂ܳܐ
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• ἀναγκαῖος
• ἀνάγκη
• χρεία

(1):

(n.) The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.

(2):

(n.) That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; - often in the plural.

(3):

(n.) That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.

(4):

(n.) The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.

(5):

(n.) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.