Lexical Summary epitēdeios: convenient, necessary Original Word: ἐπιτήδειοςTransliteration: epitēdeios Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-tay'-di-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: convenient, necessary Meaning: convenient, necessary Strong's Concordance things which are needful. From epitedes (enough); serviceable, i.e. (by implication) requisite -- things which are needful. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2006: ἐπιτήδειοςἐπιτήδειος, ἐπιτήδεια, ἐπιτηδειον, also ἐπιτήδειος, ἐπιτηδειον (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 11, 1) (ἐπιτηδές, adv, enough; and this according to Buttmann from ἐπί τάδε (? cf. Vanicek, p. 271)); 1. fit, suitable, convenient, advantageous. 2. needful; plural τά ἐπιτήδεια especially the necessaries of life (Thucydides and following): with addition of τοῦ σώματος, James 2:16. |