Word Summary
autarkeia: self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency
Original Word: αὐτάρκειαTransliteration: autarkeia
Phonetic Spelling: (ow-tar'-ki-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency
Meaning: self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency
Strong's Concordance
contentment, sufficiency.
From autarkes; self-satisfaction, i.e. (abstractly) contentedness, or (concretely) a competence -- contentment, sufficiency.
see GREEK autarkes
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 841: αὐτάρκειααὐτάρκεια,
αὐταρκείας,
ἡ (
αὐτάρκης, which see),
a perfect condition of life, in which no aid or support is needed; equivalent to
τελειότης κτήσεως ἀγαθῶν,
Plato, def., p. 412 b.; often in
Aristotle, (defined by him (pol. 7, 5 at the beginning, p. 1326{b}, 29) as follows:
τό πάντα ὑπάρχειν καί δεῖσθαι μηθενός ἀυταρκες; cf.
Lightfoot on
Philippians 4:11); hence,
a sufficiency of the necessaries of life:
2 Corinthians 9:8; subjectively,
a mind contented with its lot, contentment:
1 Timothy 6:6; ((
Diogenes Laërtius 10, 130).