ἀδυνατέω
adynatéō · G101 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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impossible
Pertaining to being impossible, presumably because of a lack of power to alter or control circumstances
ExamplesMatthew 17:20 And He said to them, “Because of your meager faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Luke 1:37 “For nothing will be impossible with God.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- οὐδείςno one 1
- ῥῆμαword, saying 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- παράfrom, with, beside+ θεόςGod 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐnot 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- פָּלָא pâlâʼ · H6381 · to be extraordinary, to be wonderful, to be difficult
- ἀδυνατέω (adynatéō, G101) ἀδυνατέω denotes passive inability or impossibility (typically human incapacity before divine power), while פָּלָא (pâlâʼ, H6381) פָּלָא emphasizes the active marvelous/extraordinary character of what is too difficult or beyond human capacity—the Greek focuses on the limitation itself, the Hebrew on the wonder-causing nature of what exceeds that limitation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Impossible71.3
- This verb denotes an event lying beyond all possibility, as in Luke 1:37's declaration, "For nothing will be impossible with God."
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ῶ: future ἀδυνατήσω; (ἀδύνατος); a. not to have strength, to be weak; always so of…
a. not to have strength, to be weak; always so of persons in classic Greek
b. a thing ἀδυνατεῖ, cannot be done, is impossible; so only in the Sept. and N. T.: οὐκ ἀδυνατήσει παρά τῷ Θεῷ (τοῦ Θεοῦ L marginal reading T Tr WH) πᾶν ῤῆμα, Lk 1:37 (the Sept. Gen 18:14) (others retain the active sense here: from God no word shall be without power, see παρά, I.
b. cf. Field, Otium Norv. pars iii. at the passage); οὐδέν ἀδυνατήσει ὑμῖν, Mt 17:20 (Job 42:2).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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