Strong's #1163: dei (pronounced die)
3d person singular active present of 1210; also deon deh-on'; neuter active participle of the same; both used impersonally; it is (was, etc.) necessary (as binding):--behoved, be meet, must (needs), (be) need(-ful), ought, should.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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dei
1) it is necessary, there is need of, it behooves, is right and proper
1a) necessity lying in the nature of the case
1b) necessity brought on by circumstances or by the conduct of others toward us.
1c) necessity in reference to what is required to attain some end
1d) a necessity of law and command, of duty, equity
1e) necessity established by the counsel and decree of God, especially by that purpose of his which relates to the salvation of men by the intervention of Christ and which is disclosed in the Old Testament prophecies
1e1) concerning what Christ was destined finally to undergo, his sufferings, death, resurrection, ascension
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: third person singular active present of G1210
Citing in TDNT: 2:21, 140
Usage:
This word is used 106 times:
Acts 9:16: "him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake."
Acts 10:6: "thee what thou oughtest to do."
Acts 14:22: "and that we must through much tribulation enter"
Acts 15:5: "which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command"
Acts 16:30: "and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
Acts 17:3: "alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from"
Acts 18:21: "bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast"
Acts 19:21: "have been there, I must also see Rome."
Acts 19:36: "that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet,"
Acts 20:35: "how that so laboring ye ought to support the weak, and"
Acts 21:22: "is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear"
Acts 23:11: "in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at"
Acts 24:19: "Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had aught"
Acts 25:10: "Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong,"
Acts 25:24: "also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer."
Acts 26:9: "verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary"
Acts 27:21: "and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not"
Acts 27:24: "not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo,"
Acts 27:26: "Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island."
Romans 1:27: "that recompense of their error which was meet."
Romans 8:26: "what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself"
Romans 12:3: "you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but"
1 Corinthians 8:2: "nothing yet as he ought to know."
1 Corinthians 11:19: "For there must be also heresies among you, that"
1 Corinthians 15:25: "For he must reign, till he hath put all"
1 Corinthians 15:53: "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this"
2 Corinthians 2:3: "from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you"
2 Corinthians 5:10: "For we must all appear before the judgment seat"
2 Corinthians 11:30: "If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities."
Ephesians 6:20: "therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak."
Colossians 4:4: "I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak."
Colossians 4:6: "that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man."
1 Thessalonians 4:1: "us how ye ought to walk and to please God,"
2 Thessalonians 3:7: "yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly"
1 Timothy 3:2: "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife,"
1 Timothy 3:7: "Moreover he must have a good report of"
1 Timothy 3:15: "that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God,"
1 Timothy 5:13: "also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not."
2 Timothy 2:6: "The husbandman that laboreth must be first partaker of the fruits."
2 Timothy 2:24: "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be"
Titus 1:7: "For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God;"
Titus 1:11: "Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching"
Titus 1:11: "whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."
Hebrews 2:1: "Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time"
Hebrews 9:26: "For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world:"
Hebrews 11:6: "him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and"
1 Peter 1:6: "ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through"
2 Peter 3:11: "these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy"
Revelation 1:1: "unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and"
Revelation 4:1: "I will show thee things which must be hereafter."
