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 (Mk 9:22f L T Tr WH; (Lk 16:2 T WH Tr text); Rev 2:2); imperfect ἐδυναμην and Attic ἠδυναμην, between which forms the manuscripts and editions are almost everywhere divided (in Mk 6:19; Mk 14:5; Lk 8:19; Lk 19:3; Jn 9:33; Jn 12:39 all editions read ἠδυναμην, so R G in Mt 26:9; Lk 1:22; Jn 11:37; Rev 14:3; on the other hand, in Mt 22:46; Lk 1:22; Jn 11:37; Rev 14:3, L T Tr WH all read ἐδυναμην, so T WH in Mt 26:9; R G in Mt 22:46. Cf. WHs Appendix, p. 162; Winer's Grammar, § 12, 1 b.; B, 33 (29)); future δυνήσομαι; 1 aorist ἠδυνήθην and (in Mk 7:24 T WH, after manuscripts א B only; in Mt 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)); the 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: Mt 6:24; Mt 9:15; Mk 2:7; Mk 3:23; Lk 6:39; Jn 3:2; Jn 5:19; Acts 27:15; 1 Cor 10:21; Heb 5:7; 1 Jn 3:9; Rev 9:20, and often. β. followed by an aorist infinitive: Mt 3:9; Mt 5:14; Mk 1:45; Mk 2:4; Mk 5:3; Lk 8:19; Lk 13:11; Jn 3:3; Jn 6:52; Jn 7:34, Jn 7:36; Acts 4:16 (R G); Acts 5:39; ; Rom 8:39; Rom 16:25; 1 Cor 2:14; 1 Cor 3:1; 1 Cor 6:5; 2 Cor 3:7; Gal 3:21; Eph 3:4, Eph 3:20; 1 Thess 3:9; 1 Tim 6:7, 1 Tim 6:16; 2 Tim 2:13; 2 Tim 3:7, 2 Tim 3:15; Heb 2:18; Heb 3:19; ( Lachmann); Jas 1:21; Rev 3:8; Rev 5:3; Rev 6:17, and very often.
b. with an infinitive omitted, as being easily supplied from the context: Mt 16:3 (here T brackets WH reject the passage); ; Mk 6:19; Mk 10:39; Lk 9:40; Lk 16:26; Lk 19:3; Rom 8:7.
c. joined with an accusative, δύναμαι τί, to be able to do something (cf. German ich vermag etwas): Mk 9:22; Lk 12:26; 2 Cor 13:8 (and in Greek writings from Homer on).
d. absolutely, like the Latinpossum (as in Cues. b. gall. 1, 18, 6), equivalent to to be able, capable, strong, powerful: 1 Cor 3:2; 1 Cor 10:13. (2 Chr 32:13; 2 Chr 32:1 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)