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Strong G1411δύναμις

power

Transliteration
dunamis
Pronunciation
doo'-nam-is
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From G1410; force (literally or figuratively); specifically miraculous power (usually by implication a miracle itself): - ability abundance meaning might (-ily -y -y deed) (worker of) miracle (-s) power strength violence mighty (wonderful) work.

Detailed definition

δύναμις, -εως, ἡ
(δύναμαι), [in LXX for עֹז,גּבוּרָה,צָבָה,(חֵיל) חַיִל, etc.; 35 words in all;]
power, might, strength; relatively, ability, power to perform: Mat.25:15, Act.3:12, Heb.11:11; κατὰ δ., 2Co.8:3; παρὰ δ., ib.; ὑπὲρ δ., 2Co.1:8; of pecuniary ability, 2Co.8:3, Rev.18:3; absol., power, might: Luk.24:49, Act.1:8; opposite to ἀσθένεια, 1Co.15:43; ἡ δ. τ. ἁμαρτίας, 1Co.15:56; of power in action, Rom.1:16, 20 1Co.1:18, Php.3:10, al.; ἡ δ. τ. θεοῦ, Mat.22:29, Mrk.12:24, Rom.1:20, al.; opposite to μόρφωσις, 2Ti.3:5; in doxologies, Rev.4:11 7:12, al.; ἐν δ., Mrk.9:1, Luk.4:36, Rom.1:4, al.; of the power of performing miracles, Act.6:8, 2Th.2:9; pl., Mat.13:54, Mrk.6:14, Gal.3:5, al.; of the force or meaning of a word (Plat., al.), 1Co.14:11. By meton., of persons or things;
__(a) of God, Mat.26:64, Mrk.14:62 (Dalman, Words, 200ff.);
__(b) of angels, Rom.8:38, Eph.1:21, 1Pe.3:22;
__(with) of armies, pl. [LXX for צְבָאוֹת ], metaphorically, of the stars, Mat.24:29, Mrk.13:25, Luk.21:26;
__(d) of that wh. manifests God's power: Christ, 1Co.1:24; τ. εὐαγγέλλιον, Rom.1:16; ἡ δ. τ. κυρίου, 1Co.5:4;
__(e) of mighty works (Tr., Syn., §xci), δ. ποιεῖν, Mrk.6:5 9:39; pl., Mat.7:22, Mrk.6:2, Luk.10:13, al.; σημεῖακ. δ., Act.8:13; δ. κ. τέρατα κ. σημεῖα, Act.2:22, 2Co.12:12.
SYN.: βία, ἐνέργεια, ἐξουσία, ἰσχύς, κράτος (see Tr., l.with; Cremer, 218, 236; DB, i, 616; iv, 29; DCG, i, 607; ii, 188). (AS)

In the Bible

Strong G1411 appears in 116 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • power75
  • work11
  • miracle9
  • strength7
  • may4
  • mighty3
  • virtue3
  • of2
  • ability1
  • abundance1
  • deed1
  • meaning1

First verses

  1. Matthew 6:13
    And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
  2. Matthew 7:22
    Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
  3. Matthew 11:20
    Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
  4. Matthew 11:21
    Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
  5. Matthew 11:23
    And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
  6. Matthew 13:54
    And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?
  7. Matthew 13:58
    And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
  8. Matthew 14:2
    And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
  9. Matthew 22:29
    Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
  10. Matthew 24:29
    Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
  11. Matthew 24:30
    And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
  12. Matthew 25:15
    And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
  13. Matthew 26:64
    Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
  14. Mark 5:30
    And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?
  15. Mark 6:2
    And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
  16. Mark 6:5
    And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
  17. Mark 6:14
    And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
  18. Mark 9:1
    And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
  19. Mark 9:39
    But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
  20. Mark 12:24
    And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
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δύνᾰμις [ῠ], ἡ,
genitive εως, Ionic dialect ιος, Ionic dialect dative δυνάμι: (δύναμαι):— power, might, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], especially of bodily strength, εἴ μοι δ. γε παρείη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.62, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.294; οἵη ἐμὴ δ. καὶ χεῖρες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.237; ἡ δ. τῶν νέων 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.3.2, etc.)]: generally, strength, power, ability to do anything, πὰρ δύναμιν beyond one's strength, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.787; in Prose, παρὰ δ. τολμηταί 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.70, etc.; ὑπὲρ δ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.193)]; opposed to κατὰ δ. as far as lies in one, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.142, etc. (κὰδ δ. 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 336); εἰς δύναμιν 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 172, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 458e, etc.; πρὸς τὴν δ. [prev. author] “Phdr.” 231a.)]
2 outward power, influence, authority, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 174 (_anapaest meter_), “Ag.” 779 (Lyric poetry); καταπαύσαντα τὴν Κύρου δ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.90; δυνάμει προὔχοντες 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.21, etc.)]; ἐν δ. εἶναι, γενέσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.4.5, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 13.29.)]
3 force for war, forces, δ. ἀνδρῶν [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.100, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 240d, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.41.2, LXX.Gen.21.22, “OGI” 139.8 (2nd c.BC))]; μετὰ δυνάμεων ἱκανῶν Wilcken [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“Chr.” 10 (2nd c.BC), etc.)]; δ. καὶ πεζὴ καὶ ἱππικὴ καὶ ναυτική [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.3.12)]; πέντε δυνάμεσι πεφρουρημένον, of the five projecting rows of sarissae in the phalanx, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 5.2, +others)]
4 a power, quantity, χρημάτων δ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.9.ά)].
5 means, κατὰ δύναμιν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Eudemia” 1243b12)]; opposed to παρὰ δ., [NT (NT.2Cor.8.3; κατὰ δ. τῶν ὑπαρχόντων “BGU” 1051.17 (Aug.).)]
II power, faculty, capacity, αἱ ἀμφὶ τὸ σῶμα δ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 14; αἱ τοῦ σώματος δυνάμεις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 185e; ἡ τῆς ὄψεως δ. [prev. author] “R.” 532a; ἡ τῶν λεγόντων δ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.11)]: with genitive of things, capacity for, τῶν ἔργων [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1309a35; τοῦ λέγειν [prev. author] “Rh.” 1362b22)]; τοῦ λόγου, τῶν λόγων, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 578, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 94; δ. στρατηγική 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.84.6; δ. ἐν πραγματείᾳ [prev. author] 2.56.5; δ. συνθετική 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 2)]: absolutely, any natural capacity or faculty, that may be improved and may be used for good or ill, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 126a37, compare “MM” 1183b28.)]
II.2 elementary force, such as heat, cold, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 16, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 646a14)]; ἡ τοῦ θερμοῦ δ.[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 650a5; θερμαντικὴ δ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 60, cf. Polystr. p.23 W.)]
II.2.b property, quality, ἰδίην δύναμιν καὶ φύσιν ἔχειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 13, compare “Nat.Hom.” 5, “Vict.” 1.10)]; especially of the natural properties of plants, etc., αἱ δ. τῶν φυομένων, τῶν σπερμάτων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.14, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.11.1)]; productive power, τῆς γῆς [Refs ([prev. author] “Oec.” 16.4; μετάλλων [prev. author] “Vect.” 4.1)]: generally, function, faculty, δύναμις φυσική, ζωική, ψυχική, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.635)]; περὶ φυσικῶν δ., title of work by Galen.
II.2.c in plural, agencies, ὑπάρχειν ἐν τῇ φύσει τὰς τοιαύτας δυνάμεις (i.e. the gods) Polystr.p.10 W.
II.2.d function, meaning, of part in whole, [Refs ([prev. author] p.17 W.)]
II.2.e in Music, function, value, of a note in the scale, δ. ἐστι τάξις φθόγγου ἐν συστήματι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Cleonides Musicus “Introductio Harmonica - Musici Scriptores Graeci” 14, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoxenus Musicus “Harmonica” p.69M.)]; μέση κατὰ δύναμιν, opposed to κατὰ θέσιν, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Harmonica - Opera Mathematica” 2.5.)]
II.3 faculty, art, or craft, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 532d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1018a30, “EN” 1094a10, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.1.1)]; δ. σκεπτική the doctrine of the Sceptics, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.1.)]
II.4 a medicine, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Timostratus Comicus 7, etc.; δ. ἁπλαῖ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ εὐσχημοσύνης” 9, 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “χρονίων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 1.4, etc.; δ. πολυφάρμακοι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.403c, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.365)]: in plural, collection of formulae or prescriptions, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 10.33.)]
II.4.b action of medicines, περὶ τῆς ἁπλῶν φαρμάκων δ., title of work by Galen; also, potency, δυνάμει θερμά, ψυχρά, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.672, +others)]
II.5 magically potent substance or object, [Refs (PMag.Leid.V. 8.12)]: in plural, magical powers, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 4.7.)]
III force or meaning of a word, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 394b, 2nd c.AD: Diogenes Oenoandensis Epicureus 12, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 31, etc.)]
III.b phonetic value of sounds or letters, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.47.8, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 12, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Jud.Voc.” 5, etc.)]
III.2 worth or value of money, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.46, 2.97, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 9, “Sol.” 15.)]
IV capability of existing or acting, potentiality, opposed to actuality (ἐνέργεια), [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1047b31, 1051a5, etc.: hence δυνάμει)] as adverb, virtually, ὕστερον ὂν τῇ τάξει, πρότερον τῇ δυνάμει.. ἐστί [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.15)]; opposed to ἐνεργείᾳ, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 86a28, +others)]; opposed to ἐντελεχείᾳ, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ph.” 193b8, +others)]
V in Mathematics texts, power, κατὰ μεταφορὰν ἡ ἐν γεωμετρίᾳ λέγεται δ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1019b33)]; usually second power, square, κατὰ δύναμιν in square, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 54b, compare “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 11, etc.: chiefly in _dative_, [εὐθεῖα] δυνάμει ἴση)] a line the square on which is equal to an area, ἡ BA ἐλάσσων ἐστὶν ἢ διπλασίων δυνάμει τῆς AK the square on BA is less than double of the square on AK, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου” 2.9: εὐθεῖαι δ. σύμμετροι)] commensurable in square, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 10 “Def.” 2)]; ἡ δυνάμει δεκάς the series 12 + 22... + 102, [Refs (“Theologumena Arithmeticae” 64.)]
V.b square number, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 32a.)]
V.c square of an unknown quantity [Refs 3rd c.AD+ ((x2), 3rd c.AD: Diophantus Mathematicus “Def.” 2, +others)]
V.2 square root of a number which is not a perfect square, surd, opposed to μῆκος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 147d.)]
V.3 product of two numbers, ἡ ἀμφοῖν (i.e. τριάδος καὶ δυάδος) δ. ἑξάς [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.3, compare 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “in Nicomachi arithmeticam introductionem” p.108 P.)]; δυνάμει in product, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Metrica” 1.15, “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 33.)]
VI concrete, powers, especially of divine beings, αἱ δ. τῶν οὐρανῶν [LXX+NT+1st c.AD+ (LXX.Isa.34.4, cf. NT.1Pet.3.22, +others, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.587, “Corpus Hermeticum” 1.26, 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 2.34: _sing._, NT.Act.8.10, “PMag.Par.” 1.1275)]; πολυώνυμος δ., of God, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Secundus Gnomologus “Sententiae - FPG” 3.)]
VII manifestation of divine power, miracle, [NT (NT.Matt.11.21, +others, Buresch “Aus Lydien” 113, etc.)]