Strong’s G5532 · Greek
χρεία
chreía · khri'-ah
Origin from the base of χράομαι (G5530) or χρή (G5534);
Meaning employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution
In the King James Version business, lack, necessary(-ity), need(-ful), use, want.
In 44 verses of the King James Version
- Matthew 3:14But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
- Matthew 6:8Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
- Matthew 9:12But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
- Matthew 14:16But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
- Matthew 21:3And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.
- Matthew 26:65Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
- Mark 2:17When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
- Mark 2:25And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
- Mark 11:3And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.
- Mark 14:63Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?
- Luke 5:31And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
- Luke 9:11And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.
- Luke 10:42But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
- Luke 15:7I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
- Luke 19:31And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.
- Luke 19:34And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
- Luke 22:71And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.
- John 2:25And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
- John 13:10Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
- John 13:29For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
- John 16:30Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
- Acts 2:45And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
- Acts 4:35And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
- Acts 6:3Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
- Acts 20:34Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
- Acts 28:10Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
- Romans 12:13Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
- 1 Corinthians 12:21And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
- 1 Corinthians 12:24For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
- Ephesians 4:28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
- Ephesians 4:29Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
- Philippians 2:25Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
- Philippians 4:16For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
- Philippians 4:19But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:12That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:1But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
- Titus 3:14And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
- Hebrews 5:12For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
- Hebrews 7:11If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
- Hebrews 10:36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
- 1 John 3:17But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
- Revelation 3:17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
- Revelation 21:23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
- Revelation 22:5And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.