Strong's #5532: chreia (pronounced khri'-ah)

from the base of 5530 or 5534; employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution:--business, lack, necessary(-ity), need(-ful), use, want.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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chreia

1) necessity, need

2) duty, business

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from the base of G5530 or G5534

Usage:

This word is used 49 times:

 

Matthew 3:14: "saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and"
Matthew 6:8: "knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him."
Matthew 9:12: "that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but"
Matthew 14:16: "Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give"
Matthew 21:3: "The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send"
Matthew 26:65: "He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now"
Mark 2:17: "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick:"
Mark 2:25: "did, when he had need, and was hungry, he, and"
Mark 11:3: "the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send"
Mark 14:63: "clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?"
Luke 5:31: "unto them, They that are whole need not a physician: but"
Luke 9:11: "and healed them that had need of healing."
Luke 10:42: "But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good"
Luke 15:7: "ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance."
Luke 19:31: "the Lord hath need of him."
Luke 19:34: "The Lord hath need of him."
Luke 22:71: "they said, What need we any further witness? for"
John 2:25: "And needed not that any should testify"
John 13:10: "saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash"
John 13:29: "Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or,"
John 16:30: "thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man"
Acts 2:45: "men, as every man had need."
Acts 4:35: "according as he had need."
Acts 6:3: "we may appoint over this business."
Acts 20:34: "hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me."
Acts 28:10: "and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary."
Romans 12:13: "Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality."
1 Corinthians 12:21: "unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again"
1 Corinthians 12:21: "to the feet, I have no need of you."
1 Corinthians 12:24: "comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together,"
Ephesians 4:28: "that he may have to give to him that needeth."
Ephesians 4:29: "that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister"
Philippians 2:25: "and he that ministered to my wants."
Philippians 4:16: "once and again unto my necessity."
Philippians 4:19: "shall supply all your need according to his riches in"
1 Thessalonians 1:8: "is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing."
1 Thessalonians 4:9: "But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you:"
1 Thessalonians 4:12: "them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing."
1 Thessalonians 5:1: "brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you."
Titus 3:14: "works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful."
Hebrews 5:12: "to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which"
Hebrews 5:12: "and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat."
Hebrews 7:11: "received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after"
Hebrews 10:36: "For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will"
1 John 2:27: "in you, and ye need not that any man"
1 John 3:17: "seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his"
Revelation 3:17: "increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not"
Revelation 21:23: "city had no need of the sun, neither of the"
Revelation 22:5: "night there; and they need no candle, neither"