Strong G1410δύναμαι
be able
- Transliteration
- dunamai
- Pronunciation
- doo'-nam-ahee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Of uncertain affinity; to be able or possible: - be able can (do + -not) could may might be possible be of power.
Detailed definition
δύναμαι, depon.,
[in LXX chiefly for יָכֹל;]
to be able, have power, whether by personal ability, permission, or opportunity: with inf. (M, Pr., 205; WM, §44, 3) pres., Mat.6:24, Mrk.2:7, Jhn.3:2, 1Co.10:21, al.; with inf. aor., Mat.3:9, Mrk.1:45, Jhn.3:3, 4 Rom.8:39, al.; with accusative, to be able to do something: Mrk.9:22, Luk.12:26; 2Co.13:8; absol., to be able, capable, powerful: 1Co.3:2 10:13.
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for יָכֹל;]
to be able, have power, whether by personal ability, permission, or opportunity: with inf. (M, Pr., 205; WM, §44, 3) pres., Mat.6:24, Mrk.2:7, Jhn.3:2, 1Co.10:21, al.; with inf. aor., Mat.3:9, Mrk.1:45, Jhn.3:3, 4 Rom.8:39, al.; with accusative, to be able to do something: Mrk.9:22, Luk.12:26; 2Co.13:8; absol., to be able, capable, powerful: 1Co.3:2 10:13.
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1410 appears in 201 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- can83
- cannot38
- be29
- ye17
- may10
- able9
- canst8
- do2
- mayest2
- thou2
- have1
- hear1
First verses
- Matthew 3:9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
- Matthew 5:14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
- Matthew 5:36Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
- Matthew 6:24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
- Matthew 6:27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
- Matthew 7:18A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
- Matthew 8:2And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
- Matthew 9:15And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
- Matthew 9:28And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
- Matthew 10:28And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
- Matthew 12:29Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
- Matthew 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
- Matthew 16:3And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
- Matthew 17:16And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
- Matthew 17:19Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
- Matthew 19:12For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
- Matthew 19:25When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
- Matthew 20:22But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
- Matthew 22:46And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
- Matthew 26:9For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
δύνᾰμαι [ῠ],
2nd pers. singular δύνασαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.393, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.374, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1164 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 811 (Lyric poetry), “Pl.” 574, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.7.8, etc.; δύνῃ “Carmen Aureum” 19, also in codices of 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 798, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 253, “Andr.” 239, and later Prose, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 7.11.5, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 13.32)]; Aeolic dialect and Doric dialect δύνᾳ [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Oxy.” 1788 “fragment” 15 ii 16, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.2, also 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 849 (Lyric poetry), uncertain in “OT” 696 (Lyric poetry))]; δύνῃ is subjunctive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 491, compare 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 337)]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural δυνέαται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.142)]; subjunctive δύνωμαι, Ionic dialect 2nd pers. singular δύνηαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.229 (δυνεώμεθα -ωνται as variants in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.97, 7.163); also δύνᾱμαι 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 3.3, “GDI” 4952 A 42 (from Crete))]: imperfect 2nd pers. singular ἐδύνω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Mercurium” 405, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.6.7; later ἐδύνασο 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 16 (variant{ἠδ}.), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 9.1)]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἐδυνέατο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.110, +others (ἠδ- codices))]: future δυνήσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.238, etc.)]; Doric dialect δυνᾱσοῦμαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus 3; later δυνηθήσομαι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 52.37)]: aorist ἐδυνησάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.33)], Epic dialect δυν- [Refs (5.621)]; subjunctive δυνήσωνται [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 1.17)], never in good Attic dialect, falsa lectio in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.323:)]passive forms, Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, Lyric poetry, ἐδυνάσθην or δυνάσθην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.465, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.19, +others, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.56, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 48 (variant{δυνηθείη}), also in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.24, “An.” 7.6.20)]; Trag. and Attic dialect Prose ἐδυνήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1067, “OT” 1212 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 867 (_anapaest meter_), 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.80,186)]: perfect δεδύνημαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.30, 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 2.14, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.261S.)] —The double augment ἠδυνάμην is Attic dialect accusative to [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Moeris Grammaticus 175)], but Ionic dialect accusative to [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Anecdota Graeca - MSS. Bibl. Oxon.” 2.374, and is found in codices of 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.110, +others, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.26.β᾽, +others)]; ἠδύνω is required by metre in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philippides Comicus 16; but is not found in _Attic dialect_ Inscrr. before 4th c.BC, “IG” 22.678.12, +others, compare ἠδύνασθε [prev. work]7.2711 (Acraeph., 1st c.AD))]; both forms occur in later writers: ἠδυνήθην occurs in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 208, and codices of 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.33, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.42, etc.: δύνομαι)] is a late form frequently in Papyrus as [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“UPZ” 9 (2nd c.BC), +others)] [ῠ, except in δῡναμένοιο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.276, 11.414, 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus “Epigrammata” 15.1, and _proper name_ Δῡναμένη, for the sake of meter])]
I to be able, strong enough to do, with infinitive present et aorist, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.163, 1.562)], etc.: future infinitive is falsa lectio (πείσειν for πείθειν) in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1394, (κωλύσειν for κωλῦσαι) 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 21.11.13)], etc.: frequently absolutely, with infinitive supplied from the context, εἰ δύνασαί γε if at least thou canst (i.e. περισχέσθαι), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.393)]: also with accusative pronoun or adjective, ὅσσον δύναμαι χερσίν τε ποσίν τε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (20.360; [Ζεὺς] δύναται ἅπαντα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.237)]; μέγα δυνάμενος very powerful, mighty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1.276, compare 11.414; δ. μέγιστον ξείνων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.9, etc.)]; μέγα δύναται, multum valet, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 950 (Lyric poetry); δ. Διὸς ἄγχιστα [prev. author] “Supp.” 1035)]; οἱ δυνάμενοι men of power, rank, and influence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 889, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.39, etc.)]; οἱ δυνάμενοι, opposed to οἱ μὴ ἔχοντες, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 255)]; opposed to οἱ πένητες, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus 3)]; δυνάμενος παρά τινι having influence with him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.26, etc.; δύνασθαι ἐν τοῖς πρώτοις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.105)]; δ. τοῖς χρήμασι, τῷ σώματι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.48, 24.4)]; ὁ δυνάμενος one that can maintain himself, [Refs ([prev. author] 24.12)]; of things, [διαφέρει] οἷς δύνανται differ in their potentialities, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.3.17.)]
I.2 of moral possibility, to be able, dare, bear to do a thing, mostly with negative, οὔτε τελευτὴν ποιῆσαι δύναται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.250; σε.. οὐ δύναμαι προλιπεῖν 13.331, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 455; οὐκέτι ἐδύνατο ἐν τῷ καθεστῶτι τρόπῳ βιοτεύειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.130; οὐδὲ σθένειν τοσοῦτον ᾠόμην τὰ σὰ κηρύγμαθ᾽ ὥστε.. θεῶν νόμιμα δύνασθαι.. ὑπερδραμεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 455.)]
I.2.b enjoy a legal right, δ. τῆς γεωργίας ἀπηλλάχθαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 899.31 (2nd-3rd c.AD), etc.)]
I.3 with ὡς and superlative, ὡς ἐδύναντο ἀδηλότατα as secretly as they could, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.50)]; ὡς δύναμαι μάλιστα κατατείνας as forcibly as I possibly can, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 367b; ὡς δύναιτο κάλλιστον [prev. author] “Smp.” 214c; ὡς ἂν δύνωμαι διὰ βραχυτάτων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.3, etc.)]; simply ὡς ἐδύνατο in the best way he could, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.2: with _relative_, ὅσους ἐδύνατο πλείστους ἀθροίσας [prev. author] “HG” 2.2.9; λαβεῖν.. οὓς ἂν σοφωτάτους δύνωμαι 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 213.)]
II to be equivalent to, λόγοι ἔργα δυνάμενοι words that are as good as deeds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.40: hence,)]
II.1 of money, to be worth, with accusative, ὁ σίγλος δύναται ἑπτὰ ὀβολούς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.6, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 34.23)]: absolutely, pass, be current, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Luct.” 10.)]
II.2 of Number, etc., to be equal or equivalent to, τριηκόσιαι γενεαὶ δυνέαται μύρια ἔτεα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.142)]; δυνήσεται τὴν ὑποτείνουσαν will be equivalent to the hypotenuse, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 709a19.)]
II.3 of words, signify, mean, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.110, +others; τὸ πειρηθῆναι καὶ τὸ ποιεῖν ἴσον δύναται [prev. author] 6.86. ; δύναται ἴσον τῷ δρᾶν τὸ νοεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 691; δύναται τὸ νεοδαμῶδες ἤδη ἐλεύθερον εἶναι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.58: in later Greek, δύναται τὸ μνασθέντι ἀντὶ τοῦ μνασθέντος)]is equivalent to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.110.)]
II.3.b avail to produce, οὐδένα καιρὸν δύναται brings no advantage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 128 (_anapaest meter_), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 23d.)]
II.3.c of things, mean, 'spell', τὸ τριβώνιον τί δύνατα; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 842)]; αἱ ἀγγελίαι τοῦτο δύνανται they mean this much, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.36; τὴν αὐτὴν δ. δούλωσιν [prev. author] 1.141, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1313b25.)]
II.4 in Mathematics texts, δύνασθαί τι to be equivalent when squared to a number or area, τοῖς ἐπιπέδοις ἃ δύνανται in the areas of which they [the lines] are the roots, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 148b)]; ἡ ΒΓ τῆς Α μεῖζον δύναται τῇ ΔΖ the square on ΒΓ is greater than the square on A by the square on ΔΖ, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 10.17)]; αἱ δυνάμεναι αὐτά [τὰ μεγέθη] the lines representing their square roots,[Refs ([prev. work] “Def.” 4, compare “Prop.” 22)]; αὐξήσεις δυνάμεναί τε καὶ δυναστευόμεναι increments both in the roots and powers of numbers, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 546b; τὴν ὑποτείνουσαν ταῖς περὶ τὴν ὀρθὴν ἴσον δυναμένην 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.720a, compare 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de communi mathematica scientia” 17)]; ἡ δυναμένη, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus)] name for the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “in Aristotelis Metaphysica commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 75.31.)]
II.4.b of numbers multiplied together, come to, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Pappus Mathematicus 1.24, 27.)]
III impersonal, οὐ δύναται, with aorist infinitive, it cannot be, is not to be, τοῖσι Σπαρτιήτῃσι καλλιερῆσαι οὐκ ἐδύνατο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.134, compare 9.45)]; δύναται it is possible, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.440e (assuming variant).)]
2nd pers. singular δύνασαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.393, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.374, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1164 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 811 (Lyric poetry), “Pl.” 574, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.7.8, etc.; δύνῃ “Carmen Aureum” 19, also in codices of 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 798, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 253, “Andr.” 239, and later Prose, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 7.11.5, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 13.32)]; Aeolic dialect and Doric dialect δύνᾳ [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Oxy.” 1788 “fragment” 15 ii 16, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.2, also 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 849 (Lyric poetry), uncertain in “OT” 696 (Lyric poetry))]; δύνῃ is subjunctive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 491, compare 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 337)]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural δυνέαται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.142)]; subjunctive δύνωμαι, Ionic dialect 2nd pers. singular δύνηαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.229 (δυνεώμεθα -ωνται as variants in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.97, 7.163); also δύνᾱμαι 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 3.3, “GDI” 4952 A 42 (from Crete))]: imperfect 2nd pers. singular ἐδύνω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Mercurium” 405, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.6.7; later ἐδύνασο 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 16 (variant{ἠδ}.), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 9.1)]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἐδυνέατο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.110, +others (ἠδ- codices))]: future δυνήσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.238, etc.)]; Doric dialect δυνᾱσοῦμαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus 3; later δυνηθήσομαι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 52.37)]: aorist ἐδυνησάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.33)], Epic dialect δυν- [Refs (5.621)]; subjunctive δυνήσωνται [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 1.17)], never in good Attic dialect, falsa lectio in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.323:)]passive forms, Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, Lyric poetry, ἐδυνάσθην or δυνάσθην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.465, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.19, +others, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.56, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 48 (variant{δυνηθείη}), also in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.24, “An.” 7.6.20)]; Trag. and Attic dialect Prose ἐδυνήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1067, “OT” 1212 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 867 (_anapaest meter_), 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.80,186)]: perfect δεδύνημαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.30, 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 2.14, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.261S.)] —The double augment ἠδυνάμην is Attic dialect accusative to [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Moeris Grammaticus 175)], but Ionic dialect accusative to [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Anecdota Graeca - MSS. Bibl. Oxon.” 2.374, and is found in codices of 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.110, +others, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.26.β᾽, +others)]; ἠδύνω is required by metre in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philippides Comicus 16; but is not found in _Attic dialect_ Inscrr. before 4th c.BC, “IG” 22.678.12, +others, compare ἠδύνασθε [prev. work]7.2711 (Acraeph., 1st c.AD))]; both forms occur in later writers: ἠδυνήθην occurs in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 208, and codices of 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.33, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.42, etc.: δύνομαι)] is a late form frequently in Papyrus as [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“UPZ” 9 (2nd c.BC), +others)] [ῠ, except in δῡναμένοιο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.276, 11.414, 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus “Epigrammata” 15.1, and _proper name_ Δῡναμένη, for the sake of meter])]
I to be able, strong enough to do, with infinitive present et aorist, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.163, 1.562)], etc.: future infinitive is falsa lectio (πείσειν for πείθειν) in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1394, (κωλύσειν for κωλῦσαι) 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 21.11.13)], etc.: frequently absolutely, with infinitive supplied from the context, εἰ δύνασαί γε if at least thou canst (i.e. περισχέσθαι), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.393)]: also with accusative pronoun or adjective, ὅσσον δύναμαι χερσίν τε ποσίν τε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (20.360; [Ζεὺς] δύναται ἅπαντα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.237)]; μέγα δυνάμενος very powerful, mighty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1.276, compare 11.414; δ. μέγιστον ξείνων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.9, etc.)]; μέγα δύναται, multum valet, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 950 (Lyric poetry); δ. Διὸς ἄγχιστα [prev. author] “Supp.” 1035)]; οἱ δυνάμενοι men of power, rank, and influence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 889, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.39, etc.)]; οἱ δυνάμενοι, opposed to οἱ μὴ ἔχοντες, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 255)]; opposed to οἱ πένητες, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus 3)]; δυνάμενος παρά τινι having influence with him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.26, etc.; δύνασθαι ἐν τοῖς πρώτοις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.105)]; δ. τοῖς χρήμασι, τῷ σώματι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.48, 24.4)]; ὁ δυνάμενος one that can maintain himself, [Refs ([prev. author] 24.12)]; of things, [διαφέρει] οἷς δύνανται differ in their potentialities, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.3.17.)]
I.2 of moral possibility, to be able, dare, bear to do a thing, mostly with negative, οὔτε τελευτὴν ποιῆσαι δύναται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.250; σε.. οὐ δύναμαι προλιπεῖν 13.331, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 455; οὐκέτι ἐδύνατο ἐν τῷ καθεστῶτι τρόπῳ βιοτεύειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.130; οὐδὲ σθένειν τοσοῦτον ᾠόμην τὰ σὰ κηρύγμαθ᾽ ὥστε.. θεῶν νόμιμα δύνασθαι.. ὑπερδραμεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 455.)]
I.2.b enjoy a legal right, δ. τῆς γεωργίας ἀπηλλάχθαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 899.31 (2nd-3rd c.AD), etc.)]
I.3 with ὡς and superlative, ὡς ἐδύναντο ἀδηλότατα as secretly as they could, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.50)]; ὡς δύναμαι μάλιστα κατατείνας as forcibly as I possibly can, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 367b; ὡς δύναιτο κάλλιστον [prev. author] “Smp.” 214c; ὡς ἂν δύνωμαι διὰ βραχυτάτων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.3, etc.)]; simply ὡς ἐδύνατο in the best way he could, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.2: with _relative_, ὅσους ἐδύνατο πλείστους ἀθροίσας [prev. author] “HG” 2.2.9; λαβεῖν.. οὓς ἂν σοφωτάτους δύνωμαι 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 213.)]
II to be equivalent to, λόγοι ἔργα δυνάμενοι words that are as good as deeds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.40: hence,)]
II.1 of money, to be worth, with accusative, ὁ σίγλος δύναται ἑπτὰ ὀβολούς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.6, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 34.23)]: absolutely, pass, be current, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Luct.” 10.)]
II.2 of Number, etc., to be equal or equivalent to, τριηκόσιαι γενεαὶ δυνέαται μύρια ἔτεα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.142)]; δυνήσεται τὴν ὑποτείνουσαν will be equivalent to the hypotenuse, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 709a19.)]
II.3 of words, signify, mean, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.110, +others; τὸ πειρηθῆναι καὶ τὸ ποιεῖν ἴσον δύναται [prev. author] 6.86. ; δύναται ἴσον τῷ δρᾶν τὸ νοεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 691; δύναται τὸ νεοδαμῶδες ἤδη ἐλεύθερον εἶναι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.58: in later Greek, δύναται τὸ μνασθέντι ἀντὶ τοῦ μνασθέντος)]is equivalent to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.110.)]
II.3.b avail to produce, οὐδένα καιρὸν δύναται brings no advantage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 128 (_anapaest meter_), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 23d.)]
II.3.c of things, mean, 'spell', τὸ τριβώνιον τί δύνατα; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 842)]; αἱ ἀγγελίαι τοῦτο δύνανται they mean this much, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.36; τὴν αὐτὴν δ. δούλωσιν [prev. author] 1.141, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1313b25.)]
II.4 in Mathematics texts, δύνασθαί τι to be equivalent when squared to a number or area, τοῖς ἐπιπέδοις ἃ δύνανται in the areas of which they [the lines] are the roots, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 148b)]; ἡ ΒΓ τῆς Α μεῖζον δύναται τῇ ΔΖ the square on ΒΓ is greater than the square on A by the square on ΔΖ, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 10.17)]; αἱ δυνάμεναι αὐτά [τὰ μεγέθη] the lines representing their square roots,[Refs ([prev. work] “Def.” 4, compare “Prop.” 22)]; αὐξήσεις δυνάμεναί τε καὶ δυναστευόμεναι increments both in the roots and powers of numbers, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 546b; τὴν ὑποτείνουσαν ταῖς περὶ τὴν ὀρθὴν ἴσον δυναμένην 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.720a, compare 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de communi mathematica scientia” 17)]; ἡ δυναμένη, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus)] name for the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “in Aristotelis Metaphysica commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 75.31.)]
II.4.b of numbers multiplied together, come to, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Pappus Mathematicus 1.24, 27.)]
III impersonal, οὐ δύναται, with aorist infinitive, it cannot be, is not to be, τοῖσι Σπαρτιήτῃσι καλλιερῆσαι οὐκ ἐδύνατο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.134, compare 9.45)]; δύναται it is possible, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.440e (assuming variant).)]