ἀναγκαῖα (anankaia)

ἀναγκαῖα is an Ancient Greek form of ἀναγκαῖος, meaning “necessary; close (kinsman)”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

It can also be a form of ἀναγκαῖον, “necessary thing; (adj.) necessary”.

Found 236 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.69.3: καὶ ὁ μὲν οὐχ ἱκανὰ μᾶλλον ἢ καὶ ἀναγκαῖα νομίσας παρῃνῆσθαι, ἀποχωρήσας ἦγε τὸν πεζὸν πρὸς τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ παρέταξεν ὡς ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐδύνατο, ὅπως ὅτι μεγίστη τοῖς ἐν ταῖς ναυσὶν ὠφελία ἐς τὸ θαρσεῖν γίγνοιτο·

Euripides, Alcestis 533: ὀθνεῖος, ἄλλως δ’ ἦν ἀναγκαία δόμοις.

New Testament, 1 Corinthians 12.22: ἀλλὰ πολλῷ μᾶλλον τὰ δοκοῦντα μέλη τοῦ σώματος ἀσθενέστερα ὑπάρχειν ἀναγκαῖά ἐστιν,

All forms of ἀναγκαῖος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.