ἀδύνατος
adýnatos · G102 · Greek · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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incapable, not being able
Pertaining to not being able to do or experience something
ExamplesActs 14:8 In Lystra a man was sitting whose feet were incapacitated. He had been disabled from his mother’s womb, and had never walked.
Romans 15:1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not just please ourselves.
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impossible
Pertaining to being impossible, presumably because of a lack of power to alter or control circumstances
ExamplesMatthew 19:26 And looking at them, Jesus said to them, “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Mark 10:27 Looking at them, Jesus said, “With people it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.”
Luke 18:27 But He said, “The things that are impossible with people are possible with God.”
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- νόμοςlaw, the Law 1
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἀνήρman, husband 1
- ἀσθενέωto be weak, to be sick 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- δυνατόςable, possible, powerful 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- ἀνακαινίζωto renew 1
- οὗτοςthis 1
- ψεύδομαιto lie 1
- ἀφαιρέωto put away 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀσθένημαweakness 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
- דַּל dal · H1800 · door, poor, weak
- דַּל (dal, H1800) denotes physical or economic weakness or poverty in Hebrew contexts, while ἀδύνατος (adýnatos, G102) extends to general inability and logical impossibility; the correspondence lies in the weakness or incapacity of persons.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Impossible71.3
- This adjective denotes an event lying beyond possibility, as in Matthew 19:26's statement, "With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
- Incapable, not being able74.22
- The adjective also denotes a person's own physical incapacity, as in Acts 14:8's account of a man in Lystra whose feet were incapacitated, disabled from his mother's womb, who had never walked.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (δύναμαι) (from Herodotus down); 1. without strength, impotent: τοῖς ποσί, Acts 14:8;…
1. without strength, impotent: τοῖς ποσί, Acts 14:8; figuratively, of Christians whose faith is not yet quite firm, Rom 15:1 (opposed to δυνατός).
2. impossible (in contrast with δυνατόν): παρά τίνι, for (with) anyone, Mt 19:26; Mk 10:27; Lk 18:27; τό ἀδύνατος τοῦ νόμου 'what the law could not do' (this God effected by, etc.; (others take τό ἀδύνατος here as nominative absolutely, cf. Buttmann, 381 (326); Winer's Grammar, 574 (534); Meyer or Gifford at the passage)), Rom 8:3; followed by the accusative with an infinitive, Heb 6:4, Heb 6:18; Heb 10:4; by an infinitive, Heb 11:6.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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