Definition

employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution

Etymology

from the base of G5530 (χράομαι) or G5534 (χρή);

Where the KJV renders it

• business
• lack
• necessary(-ity)
• need(-ful)
• use
• want

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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