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Lexical Definition
Strong's Greek G5532
employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution
KJV usage: :--business, lack, necessary(-ity), need(-ful), use, want.
Etymology: from the base of or ;
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
use; need, necessity, requisiteness, Eph. 4:29; Heb. 7:11; personal need, an individual want, Acts 20:34; Rom. 12:13; Phil. 2:25; 4:16, 19; χρείαν ἔχω, to need, require, want, Mt. 6:8; 14:16; Mk. 2:25; Jn. 2:25; ἐστὶ χρεία, there is need, Lk. 10:42; τὰ πρὸς τὴν χρείαν, necessary things, Acts 28:10; a necessary business, affair, Acts 6:3