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Strong's #841: autarkeia (pronounced ow-tar'-ki-ah)

from 842; self-satisfaction, i.e. (abstractly) contentedness, or (concretely) a competence:--contentment, sufficiency.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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autarkeia

1) a perfect condition of life in which no aid or support is needed

2) sufficiency of the necessities of life

3) a mind contented with its lot, contentment

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G842

Citing in TDNT: 1:466, 78




Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

2 Corinthians 9:8: "you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all"
1 Timothy 6:6: "But godliness with contentment is great gain."









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