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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