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Notes: In view of the more general meaning of ἐπιτήδειος in non-biblical Greek, one could classify ἐπιτήδειος under Domain 71 Mode, since the focus in so many contexts outside of the Scriptures is upon suitability and fitness, but in the one occurrence in the NT, namely OET JAM 2:16, the element of lack is focal, namely, poverty as a more or less continuous state of lack of needed possessions.

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: ἐπιτήδειος; -α, -ον

Related lemmas: ἐπιτηδειόομαι

Sense 1: needed, necessary, essential

Semantic entry: 57.48

Semantic domains: Possess, Transfer, Exchange

Subdomains: Need, Lack

Definition: pertaining to being needed or necessary for some particular purpose{N:001}

Show passage in OET: JAM 2:16

OET-RV JAM 2:16

16 and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace and be warm and satisfied,’ but don’t help with their physical needs, what use would that be?

OET-LV JAM 2:16

16 and may _say anyone to _them from you _all:
Be _going in peace, be _warming and be _satisfying, not but you _all _may _give to _them the necessary things for _their body, what is profit?

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἐπιτήδειος

Form 1

Sense 1: needed, necessary, essential