STRONGS NUMBER G317


Word Summary
anankastōs: necessarily
Original Word: ἀναγκαστῶς
Transliteration: anankastōs
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ang-kas-toce')
Part of Speech: Adverb
Short Definition: necessarily
Meaning: necessarily
Strong's Concordance
by constraint.

Adverb from a derivative of anagkazo; compulsorily -- by constraint.

see GREEK anagkazo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 317: ἀναγκαστῶς

ἀναγκαστῶς, adverb, by force or constraint; opposed to ἑκουσίως, 1 Peter 5:2. (Plato, Ax., p. 366 a.)