Strong's #318: anagke (pronounced an-ang-kay')

from 303 and the base of 43; constraint (literally or figuratively); by implication, distress:--distress, must needs, (of) necessity(-sary), needeth, needful.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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anagkē

1) necessity, imposed either by the circumstances, or by law of duty regarding to one' s advantage, custom, argument

2) calamity, distress, straits

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G303 and the base of G43

Citing in TDNT: 1:344, 55

Usage:

This word is used 18 times:

 

Matthew 18:7: "world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but"
Luke 14:18: "a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it:"
Luke 21:23: "those days! for there shall be great distress in the"
Luke 23:17: "(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)"
Romans 13:5: "Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but"
1 Corinthians 7:26: "for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so"
1 Corinthians 7:37: "his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over"
1 Corinthians 9:16: "nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe"
2 Corinthians 6:4: "in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,"
2 Corinthians 9:7: "grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth"
2 Corinthians 12:10: "in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses"
1 Thessalonians 3:7: "all our affliction and distress by your faith:"
Philemon 1:14: "be as it were of necessity, but willingly."
Hebrews 7:12: "being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law."
Hebrews 7:27: "Who needeth not daily, as those high priests,"
Hebrews 9:16: "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator."
Hebrews 9:23: "It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the"
Jude 1:3: "the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort"