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Lexicon :: Strong's G1410 - dynamai

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δύναμαι
Transliteration
dynamai (Key)
Pronunciation
doo'-nam-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain affinity
mGNT
210x in 44 unique form(s) TR
210x in 48 unique form(s) LXX
229x in 49 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:284,186

Strong’s Definitions

δύναμαι dýnamai, doo'-nam-ahee; of uncertain affinity; to be able or possible:—be able, can (do, + -not), could, may, might, be possible, be of power.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 210x

The KJV translates Strong's G1410 in the following manner: can (could) (100x), cannot (with G3756) (45x), be able (37x), may (might) (18x), able (3x), miscellaneous (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 210x
The KJV translates Strong's G1410 in the following manner: can (could) (100x), cannot (with G3756) (45x), be able (37x), may (might) (18x), able (3x), miscellaneous (7x).

  1. to be able, have power whether by virtue of one's own ability and resources, or of a state of mind, or through favourable circumstances, or by permission of law or custom

  2. to be able to do something

  3. to be capable, strong and powerful

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
δύναμαι dýnamai, doo'-nam-ahee; of uncertain affinity; to be able or possible:—be able, can (do, + -not), could, may, might, be possible, be of power.
STRONGS G1410:
δύναμαι, 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 ἐδυνάμην and Attic ἠδυνάμην, 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 ἠδ., 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 ἐδ., so T WH in Matthew 26:9; R G in Matthew 22:46. Cf. WHs Appendix, p. 162; Winer's Grammar, § 12, 1 b.; Buttmun, 33 (29)]; future δυνήσομαι; 1 aorist ἠδυνήθην and (in Mark 7:24 T WH, after manuscripts א Β 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]); 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]; Acts 5:39; 10:47; Romans 8:39; Romans 16:25; 1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthians 6:5; 2 Corinthians 3:7; Galatians 3:21; Ephesians 3:4, 20; 1 Thessalonians 3:9; 1 Timothy 6:7, 16; 2 Timothy 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:7, 15; Hebrews 2:18; Hebrews 3:19; [Hebrews 11:19 Lachmann]; James 1:21; Revelation 3:8; Revelation 5:3; Revelation 6:17, and very often.
b. with an infinitive omitted, as being easily supplied from the context: Matthew 16:3 [here T brackets WH reject the passage]; Matt 20:22; Mark 6:19; Mark 10:39; Luke 9:40; Luke 16:26; Luke 19:3; Romans 8:7.
c. joined with an accusative, δύναμαί τι, 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 Latin possum (as in Caes. 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)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Chronicles
1; 32:13
Matthew
3:9; 5:14; 6:24; 9:15; 16:3; 17:16; 20:22; 22:46; 22:46; 26:9; 26:9
Mark
1:45; 2:4; 2:7; 3:23; 5:3; 6:19; 6:19; 7:24; 9:22; 9:22; 10:39; 14:5
Luke
1:22; 1:22; 6:39; 8:19; 8:19; 9:40; 12:26; 13:11; 16:2; 16:26; 19:3; 19:3
John
3:2; 3:3; 5:19; 6:52; 7:34; 7:36; 9:33; 11:37; 11:37; 12:39
Acts
4:16; 5:39; 10:47; 27:15
Romans
8:7; 8:39; 16:25
1 Corinthians
2:14; 3:1; 3:2; 6:5; 10:13; 10:21
2 Corinthians
3:7; 13:8
Galatians
3:21
Ephesians
3:4; 3:20
1 Thessalonians
3:9
1 Timothy
6:7; 6:16
2 Timothy
2:13; 3:7; 3:15
Hebrews
2:18; 3:19; 5:7; 11:19
James
1:21
1 John
3:9
Revelation
2:2; 3:8; 5:3; 6:17; 9:20; 14:3; 14:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1410 matches the Greek δύναμαι (dynamai),
which occurs 210 times in 201 verses in the TR Greek.

Page 3 / 5 (Jhn 8:43–1Co 10:13)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:43 - Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:4 - We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:16 - Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:33 - If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:21 - Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:29 - My Father, who has given them to me,[fn] is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:35 - If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:37 - But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:39 - Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 13:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:33 - Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 13:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:36 - Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 13:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:37 - Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:5 - Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:17 - even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be[fn] in you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:4 - Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:5 - I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:12 - “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:16 - saying, “What shall we do with these men? For that a notable sign has been performed through them is evident to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:20 - for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 5:39

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:39 - but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!” So they took his advice,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 8:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:31 - And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:47

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:47 - “Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:39

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:39 - and by him everyone who believes is freed[fn] from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:1 - But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 17:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:19 - And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 19:40

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:40 - For we really are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause that we can give to justify this commotion.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 20:32

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:32 - And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:34 - Some in the crowd were shouting one thing, some another. And as he could not learn the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:8 - By examining him yourself you will be able to find out from him about everything of which we accuse him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:11 - You can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:13 - Neither can they prove to you what they now bring up against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:11 - If then I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 26:32

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:32 - And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:12 - And because the harbor was not suitable to spend the winter in, the majority decided to put out to sea from there, on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing both southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:15 - And when the ship was caught and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 27:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:31 - Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 27:39

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:39 - Now when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned if possible to run the ship ashore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 27:43

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:43 - But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and make for the land,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:7 - For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:8 - Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 8:39

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:39 - nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:14 - I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers,[fn] that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:25 - Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:14 - The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:1 - But I, brothers,[fn] could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:2 - I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:11 - For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 6:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:5 - I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:21 - Were you a bondservant[fn] when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 10:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:13 - No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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