Strong's Concordance dunamai: to be able, to have power Original Word: δύναμαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: dunamai Phonetic Spelling: (doo'-nam-ahee) Definition: to be able, to have power Usage: (a) I am powerful, have (the) power, (b) I am able, I can. HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 1410 dýnamai (a primitive verb) – to show ability (power); able (enabled by God), empowered. See the cognate-noun, 1411 /dýnamis ("ability, power"). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. verb Definition to be able, to have power NASB Translation able (50), am able (2), can (60), cannot (1), cannot* (59), could (24), may (1), might (3), power...has (1), unable* (7). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1410: δύναμαιδύναμαι, deponent verb, present indicative 2 person singular δύνασαι and, according to a rarer form occasional in the poets and from Polybius on to be met with in prose writings also (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 359; (WHs Appendix, p. 168; Winers Grammar, § 13, 2 b.; Veitch, under the word)), δύνῃ (Mark 9:22f L T Tr WH; (Luke 16:2 T WH Tr text); Revelation 2:2); imperfect ἐδυναμην and Attic ἠδυναμην, between which forms the manuscripts and editions are almost everywhere divided (in Mark 6:19; Mark 14:5; Luke 8:19; Luke 19:3; John 9:33; John 12:39 all editions read ἠδυναμην, so R G in Matthew 26:9; Luke 1:22; John 11:37; Revelation 14:3; on the other hand, in Matthew 22:46; Luke 1:22; John 11:37; Revelation 14:3, L T Tr WH all read ἐδυναμην, so T WH in Matthew 26:9; R G in Matthew 22:46. Cf. WHs Appendix, p. 162; Winer's Grammar, § 12, 1 b.; B, 33 (29)); future δυνήσομαι; 1 aorist ἠδυνήθην and (in Mark 7:24 T WH, after manuscripts א B only; in Matthew 17:16 manuscript B) ἠδυνάσθην (cf. (WH as above and p. 169); Kühner, § 343, under the word; (Veitch, under the word; Winers Grammar, 84 (81); Buttmann, 33 (29); Curtius, Das Verbum, 2:402)); the Sept. for יָכֹל; to be able, have power, whether by virtue of one's own ability and resources, or of a state of mind, or through favorable circumstances, or by permission of law or custom; a. followed by an infinitive (Winers Grammar, § 44, 3) present or aorist (on the distinction between which, cf. Winer's Grammar, § 44, 7). α. followed by a present infinitive: Matthew 6:24; Matthew 9:15; Mark 2:7; Mark 3:23; Luke 6:39; John 3:2; John 5:19; Acts 27:15; 1 Corinthians 10:21; Hebrews 5:7; 1 John 3:9; Revelation 9:20, and often. β. followed by an aorist infinitive: Matthew 3:9; Matthew 5:14; Mark 1:45; Mark 2:4; Mark 5:3; Luke 8:19; Luke 13:11; John 3:3; John 6:52; John 7:34, 36; Acts 4:16 (R G); b. with an infinitive omitted, as being easily supplied from the context: Matthew 16:3 (here T brackets WH reject the passage); c. joined with an accusative, δύναμαι τί, to be able to do something (cf. German ich vermag etwas): Mark 9:22; Luke 12:26; 2 Corinthians 13:8 (and in Greek writings from Homer on). d. absolutely, like the Latinpossum (as in Cues. b. gall. 1, 18, 6), equivalent to to be able, capable, strong, powerful: 1 Corinthians 3:2; 1 Corinthians 10:13. (2 Chronicles 32:13; 1 Macc. 5:40f; in 2 Macc. 11:13 manuscript Alex., and often in Greek writings as Euripides, Or. 889; Thucydides 4, 105; Xenophon, an. 4, 5, 11f; Isocrates, Demosthenes, Aeschines) Of uncertain affinity; to be able or possible -- be able, can (do, + -not), could, may, might, be possible, be of power. Englishman's Concordance Matthew 3:9 V-PIM/P-3SGRK: ὑμῖν ὅτι δύναται ὁ θεὸς NAS: God is able to raise KJV: that God is able of these INT: to you that able is God Matthew 5:14 V-PIM/P-3S Matthew 5:36 V-PIM/P-2S Matthew 6:24 V-PIM/P-3S Matthew 6:24 V-PIM/P-2P Matthew 6:27 V-PIM/P-3S Matthew 7:18 V-PIM/P-3S Matthew 8:2 V-PIM/P-2S Matthew 9:15 V-PIM/P-3P Matthew 9:28 V-PIM/P-1S Matthew 10:28 V-PPM/P-GMP Matthew 10:28 V-PPM/P-AMS Matthew 12:29 V-PIM/P-3S Matthew 12:34 V-PIM/P-2P Matthew 16:3 V-PIM/P-2P Matthew 17:16 V-AIP-3P Matthew 17:19 V-AIP-1P Matthew 19:12 V-PPM/P-NMS Matthew 19:25 V-PIM/P-3S Matthew 20:22 V-PIM/P-2P Matthew 20:22 V-PIM/P-1P Matthew 22:46 V-IIM/P-3S Matthew 26:9 V-IIM/P-3S Matthew 26:42 V-PIM/P-3S Matthew 26:53 V-PIM/P-1S Strong's Greek 1410 |