ἱκανός,
ἱκανή,
ἱκανόν (from
ἵκω,
ἱκανῷ; properly, 'reaching to', 'attaining to'; hence, 'adequate'); as in Greek writings from
Herodotus and
Thucydides down,
sufficient;
a. of number and quantity; with nouns,
many enough, or enough with a genitive:
ὄχλος ἱκανός, a great multitude (
A. V. often
much people),
Mark 10:46;
Luke 7:12;
Acts 11:24,
26;
Acts 19:26;
λαός,
Acts 5:37 R G;
κλαυθμός,
Acts 20:37;
ἀργύρια ἱκανά (
A. V. large money, cf. the colloquial, 'money enough'),
Matthew 28:12;
λαμπάδες,
Acts 20:8;
λόγοι,
Luke 23:9;
φῶς ἱκανόν, a considerable light (
A. V. a great light),
Acts 22:6. of time:
ἱκανῷ χρόνῳ (cf.
Winers Grammar, § 31, 9;
Buttmann, § 133, 26) for a long time (
Luke 8:27 T Tr text
WH);
Acts 8:11; also
ἱκανόν χρόνον,
Acts 14:3; and plural
Luke 20:9;
ἐξ ἱκανοῦ, of a long time, now for a long time,
Luke 23:8 R G; also
ἐκ χρόνων,
ἱκανῶν,
Luke 8:27 R G L Tr marginal reading;
Luke 23:8 L T Tr WH; (
ἀπό ἱκανῶν ἐτῶν,
these many years, Romans 15:23 WH Tr text);
ἱκανοῦ...
χρόνου διαγενομένου, much time having elapsed,
Acts 27:9;
ἐφ' ἱκανόν for a long while,
Acts 20:11 (2 Macc. 8:25;
Diodorus 13, 100;
Palaeph. 28);
ἡμέραι (cf.
Lightfoot on Galatians, p. 89 n.),
Acts 9:23,
43;
Acts 18:18;
Acts 27:7. absolutely,
ἱκανοί, many, a considerable number:
Luke 7:11 (
R G L brackets
T Tr marginal reading brackets);
Acts 12:12;
Acts 14:21;
Acts 19:19;
1 Corinthians 11:30 (1 Macc. 13:49, etc.).
ἱκανόν ἐστιν,
it is enough, equivalent to enough has been said on this subject,
Luke 22:38 (for Jesus, saddened at the paltry ideas of the disciples, breaks off in this way the conversation; the Jews, when a companion uttered anything absurd, were accustomed to use the phrase
לָכֶם רַב (
A. V. let it suffice thee, etc.), as in
Deuteronomy 3:26, where the
Sept. ἱκανούσθω)
ἱκανόν τῷ τοιούτῳ ἡ ἐπιτιμία αὕτη, SC.
ἐστι, sufficient... is this punishment,
2 Corinthians 2:6; after the Latin idiom satisfacere alicui,
τό ἱκανόν ποιεῖν τίνι, to take away from one every ground of complaint (
A. V. to content),
Mark 15:15 (
Polybius 32, 7, 13; Appendix, Puff., p. 68, Toll. edition (sec. 74, i., p. 402 edition Schweig.); (
Diogenes Laërtius 4, 50);
τό ἱκανο λαμβάνω (Latin
satisaccipio),
to take security (either by accepting sponsors, or by a deposit of money until the case had been decided),
Acts 17:9.
b. sufficient in ability, i. e.
meet, fit (German
tüchtig (
A. V. worthy, able, etc.)):
πρός τί, for something,
2 Corinthians 2:16; followed by an infinitive (
Buttmann, 260 (223f)),
Matthew 3:11;
Mark 1:7;
Luke 3:16;
1 Corinthians 15:9;
2 Corinthians 3:5;
2 Timothy 2:2; followed by
ἵνα with subjunctive (
Buttmann, 240 (207); cf.
Winer's Grammar, 335 (314)):
Matthew 8:8;
Luke 7:6.
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