Be necessary

Usually translated “it behooves”, “it is necessary” and “it is necessary for”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• it behooves 56
• it is necessary 9
• it is necessary for 7
• it was necessary for 7
• it was necessary 6
• needing 3
• necessary 2
• ought 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Acts 25
• Luke 19
• John 10
• Matthew 8
• Revelation 8
• Mark 6

19 books in all.

• Necessary (anagkaios)
• Necessarily (epanagkes)
• Necessity (anagkē)
• Necessary (epitēdeios)

• 1 Timothy 3:2In contextA bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
• 1 Timothy 3:7In contextMoreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
• 1 Timothy 3:15In contextBut if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• 1 Timothy 5:13In contextAnd withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
• Titus 1:7In contextFor a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
• Titus 1:11In contextWhose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “need” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.