Lexical Summary autarkeia: self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency Original Word: αὐτάρκειαTransliteration: autarkeia Phonetic Spelling: (ow-tar'-ki-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency Meaning: self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency Strong's Concordance contentment, sufficiency. From autarkes; self-satisfaction, i.e. (abstractly) contentedness, or (concretely) a competence -- contentment, sufficiency. see GREEK autarkes Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 841: αὐτάρκειααὐτάρκεια, αὐταρκείας, ἡ (αὐτάρκης, which see), a perfect condition of life, in which no aid or support is needed; equivalent to τελειότης κτήσεως ἀγαθῶν, Plato, def., p. 412 b.; often in Aristotle, (defined by him (pol. 7, 5 at the beginning, p. 1326{b}, 29) as follows: τό πάντα ὑπάρχειν καί δεῖσθαι μηθενός ἀυταρκες; cf. Lightfoot on Philippians 4:11); hence, a sufficiency of the necessaries of life: 2 Corinthians 9:8; subjectively, a mind contented with its lot, contentment: 1 Timothy 6:6; ((Diogenes Laërtius 10, 130). |
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