Strong G714ἀρκέω
be sufficient
- Transliteration
- arkeō
- Pronunciation
- ar-keh'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Apparently a primary verb (but probably akin to G142 through the idea of raising a barrier); properly to ward off that is (by implication) to avail (figuratively be satisfactory): - be content be enough suffice be sufficient.
Detailed definition
ἀρκέω, -ῶ
[in LXX for הוֹן, etc.;]
1. to keep off; with dative, to assist.
2. to suffice: with dative of person(s), Jo 67, 2Co.12:9; impers., Mat.25:9, Jhn.14:8 (MM, see word). Pass., to be satisfied: with dative of thing(s), Luk.3:14, 1Ti.6:8, Heb.13:5; before ἐπί, III Jn 10.†
(AS)
[in LXX for הוֹן, etc.;]
1. to keep off; with dative, to assist.
2. to suffice: with dative of person(s), Jo 67, 2Co.12:9; impers., Mat.25:9, Jhn.14:8 (MM, see word). Pass., to be satisfied: with dative of thing(s), Luk.3:14, 1Ti.6:8, Heb.13:5; before ἐπί, III Jn 10.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G714 appears in 8 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- content4
- be3
- enough1
- let1
- sufficeth1
- sufficient1
First verses
- Matthew 25:9But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
- Luke 3:14And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
- John 6:7Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.
- John 14:8Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
- 2 Corinthians 12:9And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
- 1 Timothy 6:8And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
- Hebrews 13:5Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
- 3 John 1:10Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀρκέω,
imperfect 3rd.pers.singular ἤρκει[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.440, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 278:)]future ἀρκέσω: aorist ἤρκεσα, Doric dialect ἄρκεσα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.3:)] —middle, aorist ἠρκεσάμην, 2nd pers.singular ἠρκέσω uncertain in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 213 (assuming variant))]:—passive, infinitive ἀρκέεσθαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.33, ἀρκεῖσθαι poetical cited in Greg.Cor. p.425 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]: perfect ἤρκεσμαι[Refs 5th c.AD+ (Sthenidas Philosophus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 4.7.63)]: aorist ἠρκέσθην[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pelopidas” 35, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Salt.” 83)]: future ἀρκεσθήσομαι[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.94, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.8, etc.)]:—ward off, keep off, with dative person et accusative of things, σάκος τό οἱ ἤρκεσε λυγρὸν ὄλεθρον[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.289, compare 6.16; πατρίδι δουλοσύνην 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 101; κῆρας μελάθροις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1300 (Lyric poetry); ὅς οἱ ἀπὸ χροὸς ἤρκει ὄλεθρον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.440, compare 15.534; τοῦτό γ᾽ ἀρκέσαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 535)]; ὡς οὐκ ἀρκέσοι τὸ μὴ οὐ.. θανεῖν would not keep off death, [Refs ([prev. work] 727.)]
2 with dative only, defend, πυκινὸς δέ οἱ ἤρκεσε θώρηξ[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.529; οὐδ᾽ ἤρκεσε θώρηξ, without _dative_, 13.371.)]
3 assist, succour,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (21.131, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.261, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 824, “El.” 322, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1164.)]
II with accusative cognate, make good, achieve, οὐδ᾽ ἔργα μείω χειρὸς ἀρκέσας ἐμῆς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 439.)]
III mostly in Trag., and always in Prose, to be strong enough, suffice, with infinitive, first in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.3)]; ἀρκῶ σοι σαφηνίσαι (-σας Linwood) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 621 codices, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1209 (Lyric poetry): with)]participle, ἀρκέσω θνῄσκουσ᾽ ἐγώ my death will suffice, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ant.” 547; compare ἀρκοῦμεν ἡμεῖς οἱ προθνῄσκοντές σεθεν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 383)]; ἔνδον ἀρκείτω μένων let him be content to stay within, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 76; ἀρκεῖν γὰρ οἶμαι μίαν ψυχὴν τάδ᾽ ἐκτίνουσαν [prev. author] “OC” 498; οὔτε ἰατροὶ ἤρκουν θεραπεύοντες 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.47)]; elliptically, σοφοὺς ὥσπερ σύ, μηδὲν μᾶλλον· ἀρκέσουσι γάρ [σοφοὶ ὄντες] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 576; ἀ. εἴς τι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.2.5; πῶς ἡ πόλις ἀρκέσει ἐπὶ τοιαύτην παρασκευή; 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 369d)]; ταὐτὸν ἀρκεῖ σκῶμμα ἐπὶ πάντας holds equally for all, [Refs ([prev. author] “Tht.” 174a)]; ὅτ᾽ οὐκέτ᾽ ἀρκεῖ [ἡ μάθησις] when it avails no more, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 711.)]
III.2 with dative, suffice for, satisfy, οὐδὲ ταῦτά τοι μοῦνα ἤρκεσε[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.115, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 308, etc.)]
III.3 to be a match for, with dative, ψιλὸς ἀρκέσαιμι σοί γ᾽ ὡπλισμένῳ[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Aj.” 1123; πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.84.)]
III.4 absolutely, to be enough, avail, endure, ἀρκείτω βίος[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1314; οὐδὲν γὰρ ἤρκει τόξα [prev. author] “Pers.” 278)]; holdout, last, ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀρκεῖν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.71, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.31)]; οὐδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἀρκῶ I can hold out no longer, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 186 (Lyric poetry))]; ὥστε ἀρκεῖν πλοῖα to be sufficient in number, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.1.13)]: frequently in participle, ἀρκῶν, οῦσα, οῦν, sufficient, enough, βίος ἀρκέων ὑπῆν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.31, compare 7.28; τἀρκοῦντα)]a sufficiency, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 865; ἀρκοῦσα ἀπολογία 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.4.10)]; ἀρκοῦντα or τἀρκοῦντα ἔχειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.1, “Smp.” 4.35; τῶν ἀρκούντων περιττὰ κτᾶσθαι [prev. author] “Cyr.” 8.2.21.)]
III.5 impersonal, ἀρκεῖ μοι 'tis enough for me, I am well content, with infinitive, οὐκ ἀρκέσει ποθ᾽ ὑμὶν.. εἴκειν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1242, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.8.13)]: with accusative et infinitive, ἐμοὶ μὲν ἀρκεῖ τοῦτον ἐν δόμοις μένειν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 80)]; ἀρκεῖ ἢν.., ὅτι.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.1.14, “Mem.” 4.4.9)]; ἔμ᾽ ἀρκεῖ βουλεύειν 'tis enough that I.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 248)]; οὐκ ἀρκοῦν μοί ἐστι, with accusative et infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.2)]; ἀρκεῖν δοκεῖ μοι it seems enough, seems good, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1364.)]
IV in passive, to be satisfied with, with dative of things, poetical cited in Greg.Cor.[same place]; ἔφη οὐκέτι ἀρκέεσθαι τούτοισι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.33, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 369e, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1107b15, “Anthologia Graeca” 6.329 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus), 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.5.3: _absolutely_, [prev. work] 3.6, etc.)]
IV.2 later, with infinitive, to be contented to do, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.20.1, Ps.- 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Philopatr.” 29, etc.)]
imperfect 3rd.pers.singular ἤρκει[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.440, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 278:)]future ἀρκέσω: aorist ἤρκεσα, Doric dialect ἄρκεσα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.3:)] —middle, aorist ἠρκεσάμην, 2nd pers.singular ἠρκέσω uncertain in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 213 (assuming variant))]:—passive, infinitive ἀρκέεσθαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.33, ἀρκεῖσθαι poetical cited in Greg.Cor. p.425 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]: perfect ἤρκεσμαι[Refs 5th c.AD+ (Sthenidas Philosophus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 4.7.63)]: aorist ἠρκέσθην[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pelopidas” 35, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Salt.” 83)]: future ἀρκεσθήσομαι[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.94, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.8, etc.)]:—ward off, keep off, with dative person et accusative of things, σάκος τό οἱ ἤρκεσε λυγρὸν ὄλεθρον[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.289, compare 6.16; πατρίδι δουλοσύνην 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 101; κῆρας μελάθροις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1300 (Lyric poetry); ὅς οἱ ἀπὸ χροὸς ἤρκει ὄλεθρον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.440, compare 15.534; τοῦτό γ᾽ ἀρκέσαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 535)]; ὡς οὐκ ἀρκέσοι τὸ μὴ οὐ.. θανεῖν would not keep off death, [Refs ([prev. work] 727.)]
2 with dative only, defend, πυκινὸς δέ οἱ ἤρκεσε θώρηξ[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.529; οὐδ᾽ ἤρκεσε θώρηξ, without _dative_, 13.371.)]
3 assist, succour,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (21.131, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.261, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 824, “El.” 322, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1164.)]
II with accusative cognate, make good, achieve, οὐδ᾽ ἔργα μείω χειρὸς ἀρκέσας ἐμῆς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 439.)]
III mostly in Trag., and always in Prose, to be strong enough, suffice, with infinitive, first in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.3)]; ἀρκῶ σοι σαφηνίσαι (-σας Linwood) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 621 codices, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1209 (Lyric poetry): with)]participle, ἀρκέσω θνῄσκουσ᾽ ἐγώ my death will suffice, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ant.” 547; compare ἀρκοῦμεν ἡμεῖς οἱ προθνῄσκοντές σεθεν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 383)]; ἔνδον ἀρκείτω μένων let him be content to stay within, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 76; ἀρκεῖν γὰρ οἶμαι μίαν ψυχὴν τάδ᾽ ἐκτίνουσαν [prev. author] “OC” 498; οὔτε ἰατροὶ ἤρκουν θεραπεύοντες 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.47)]; elliptically, σοφοὺς ὥσπερ σύ, μηδὲν μᾶλλον· ἀρκέσουσι γάρ [σοφοὶ ὄντες] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 576; ἀ. εἴς τι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.2.5; πῶς ἡ πόλις ἀρκέσει ἐπὶ τοιαύτην παρασκευή; 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 369d)]; ταὐτὸν ἀρκεῖ σκῶμμα ἐπὶ πάντας holds equally for all, [Refs ([prev. author] “Tht.” 174a)]; ὅτ᾽ οὐκέτ᾽ ἀρκεῖ [ἡ μάθησις] when it avails no more, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 711.)]
III.2 with dative, suffice for, satisfy, οὐδὲ ταῦτά τοι μοῦνα ἤρκεσε[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.115, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 308, etc.)]
III.3 to be a match for, with dative, ψιλὸς ἀρκέσαιμι σοί γ᾽ ὡπλισμένῳ[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Aj.” 1123; πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.84.)]
III.4 absolutely, to be enough, avail, endure, ἀρκείτω βίος[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1314; οὐδὲν γὰρ ἤρκει τόξα [prev. author] “Pers.” 278)]; holdout, last, ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀρκεῖν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.71, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.31)]; οὐδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἀρκῶ I can hold out no longer, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 186 (Lyric poetry))]; ὥστε ἀρκεῖν πλοῖα to be sufficient in number, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.1.13)]: frequently in participle, ἀρκῶν, οῦσα, οῦν, sufficient, enough, βίος ἀρκέων ὑπῆν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.31, compare 7.28; τἀρκοῦντα)]a sufficiency, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 865; ἀρκοῦσα ἀπολογία 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.4.10)]; ἀρκοῦντα or τἀρκοῦντα ἔχειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.1, “Smp.” 4.35; τῶν ἀρκούντων περιττὰ κτᾶσθαι [prev. author] “Cyr.” 8.2.21.)]
III.5 impersonal, ἀρκεῖ μοι 'tis enough for me, I am well content, with infinitive, οὐκ ἀρκέσει ποθ᾽ ὑμὶν.. εἴκειν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1242, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.8.13)]: with accusative et infinitive, ἐμοὶ μὲν ἀρκεῖ τοῦτον ἐν δόμοις μένειν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 80)]; ἀρκεῖ ἢν.., ὅτι.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.1.14, “Mem.” 4.4.9)]; ἔμ᾽ ἀρκεῖ βουλεύειν 'tis enough that I.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 248)]; οὐκ ἀρκοῦν μοί ἐστι, with accusative et infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.2)]; ἀρκεῖν δοκεῖ μοι it seems enough, seems good, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1364.)]
IV in passive, to be satisfied with, with dative of things, poetical cited in Greg.Cor.[same place]; ἔφη οὐκέτι ἀρκέεσθαι τούτοισι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.33, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 369e, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1107b15, “Anthologia Graeca” 6.329 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus), 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.5.3: _absolutely_, [prev. work] 3.6, etc.)]
IV.2 later, with infinitive, to be contented to do, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.20.1, Ps.- 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Philopatr.” 29, etc.)]