Lexicon epitédeios: convenient, necessary Original Word: ἐπιτήδειος, α, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: epitédeios Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-tay'-di-os) Short Definition: necessary Definition: necessary, suitable, fit. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom epitédes (enough) Definitionconvenient, necessary NASB Translationnecessary (1). 
 Thayer's 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.   
 
 
 
  Strong's things which are needful.  From epitedes (enough); serviceable, i.e. (by implication) requisite -- things which are needful.   |  
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