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Lexicon :: Strong's G2425 - hikanos

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ἱκανός
Transliteration
hikanos (Key)
Pronunciation
hik-an-os'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From hiko [hikano or hikneomai, akin to ἥκω (G2240)] (to arrive)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:293,361

Strong’s Definitions

ἱκανός hikanós, hik-an-os'; from ἵκω híkō ( ἱκάνω hikánō or ἱκνέομαι hiknéomai, akin to G2240) (to arrive); competent (as if coming in season), i.e. ample (in amount) or fit (in character):—able, + content, enough, good, great, large, long (while), many, meet, much, security, sore, sufficient, worthy.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x

The KJV translates Strong's G2425 in the following manner: many (11x), much (6x), worthy (5x), long (4x), sufficient (3x), miscellaneous (12x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x
The KJV translates Strong's G2425 in the following manner: many (11x), much (6x), worthy (5x), long (4x), sufficient (3x), miscellaneous (12x).

  1. sufficient

    1. many enough, enough

    2. sufficient in ability, i.e. meet, fit

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἱκανός hikanós, hik-an-os'; from ἵκω híkō ( ἱκάνω hikánō or ἱκνέομαι hiknéomai, akin to G2240) (to arrive); competent (as if coming in season), i.e. ample (in amount) or fit (in character):—able, + content, enough, good, great, large, long (while), many, meet, much, security, sore, sufficient, worthy.
STRONGS G2425:
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 (Latinsatisaccipio), 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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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
3:26
Matthew
3:11; 8:8; 28:12
Mark
1:7; 10:46; 15:15
Luke
3:16; 7:6; 7:11; 7:12; 8:27; 8:27; 20:9; 22:38; 23:8; 23:8; 23:9
Acts
5:37; 8:11; 9:23; 9:43; 11:24; 11:26; 12:12; 14:3; 14:21; 17:9; 18:18; 19:19; 19:26; 20:8; 20:11; 20:37; 22:6; 27:7; 27:9
Romans
15:23
1 Corinthians
11:30; 15:9
2 Corinthians
2:6; 2:16; 3:5
2 Timothy
2:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2425 matches the Greek ἱκανός (hikanos),
which occurs 29 times in 28 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:15 - And Esau said, “Now let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:10 - Then Moses said to the LORD, “O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:4 - ‘And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:7 - for the material they had was sufficient for all the work to be done—indeed too much.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7 - ‘If he is not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD, for his trespass which he has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons: one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8 - ‘And if she is not able to bring a lamb, then she may bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a burnt offering and the other as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:26 - ‘Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - ‘But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:20 - But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi;[fn] call me Mara,[fn] for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:21 - “I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:31 - And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshiped him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:8 - Now it happened one day that Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a notable woman, and she persuaded him to eat some food. So it was, as often as he passed by, he would turn in there to eat some food.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:3 - For they could not keep it at the regular time,[fn] because a sufficient number of priests had not consecrated themselves, nor had the people gathered together at Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:31 - Yet You will plunge me into the pit,
And my own clothes will abhor me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:15 - Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?
And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:2 - For what is the allotment of God from above,
And the inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:2 - “Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him?
He who rebukes God, let him answer it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:16 - Have you found honey?
Eat only as much as you need,
Lest you be filled with it and vomit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:15 - The leech has two daughters—
Give and Give!

There are three things that are never satisfied,
Four never say, “Enough!”:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:16 - And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,
Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:30 - “I know his wrath,” says the LORD,
“But it is not right;
His lies have made nothing right.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:18 - “Is it too little for you to have eaten up the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture—and to have drunk of the clear waters, that you must foul the residue with your feet?

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For His camp is very great;
For strong is the One who executes His word.
For the day of the LORD is great and very terrible;
Who can endure it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:5 - “If thieves had come to you,
If robbers by night—
Oh, how you will be cut off!—
Would they not have stolen till they had enough?
If grape-gatherers had come to you,
Would they not have left some gleanings?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:12 - The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs,
Killed for his lionesses,
Filled his caves with prey,
And his dens with flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:13 - Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts
That the peoples labor to feed the fire,[fn]
And nations weary themselves in vain?

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:3 - and to ask the priests who were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month and fast as I have done for so many years?”
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