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δύναμαι
Vocabulary form:
duvnamai
Definition:
I am powerful, am able
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
210
GK:
1538
Root:
duna
Forms:
(hjdunavmhn), dunhvsomai, -, -, -, hjdunhvqhn or hjdunavsqhn
Cognates:
A dynamo is a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. It is used metaphorically of a person with a lot of energy.
Mnemonics:
"Do" is the first syllable of duvnamai;so if I can do it, I am able and powerful
Biblical Concordance
| Mark 10:26 | They were even more astonished, saying to themselves, “Then who is able (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) to be saved?” |
| Mark 10:38 | But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able (dynasthe | δύνασθε | pres pass ind 2 pl) to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” |
| Mark 10:39 | They said to him, “We are able.” (dynametha | δυνάμεθα | pres pass ind 1 pl) And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; |
| Mark 14:5 | For this ointment could (ēdynato | ἠδύνατο | imperf pass ind 3 sg) have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly. |
| Mark 14:7 | For you will always have the poor with you, and whenever you want you can (dynasthe | δύνασθε | pres pass ind 2 pl) do something good for them, but you will not always have me. |
| Mark 15:31 | So also the ruling priests, mocking among themselves, with the scribes, were saying, “Others he saved; himself he (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) not save! |
| Luke 1:20 | And now you will be reduced to silence and not be able (dynamenos | δυνάμενος | pres pass ptcp nom sg masc) to speak until the day in which these things happen, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.” |
| Luke 1:22 | When he came out, he (edynato | ἐδύνατο | imperf pass ind 3 sg) was (edynato | ἐδύνατο | imperf pass ind 3 sg) not able (edynato | ἐδύνατο | imperf pass ind 3 sg) to speak to them; and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple (he kept gesturing to them and remained mute). |
| Luke 3:8 | Bear, then, fruits worthy of repentance. Do not even begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg), out of these stones, to raise up children to Abraham. |
| Luke 5:12 | It happened that, when he was in one of the cities, there was a man full of leprosy. And seeing Jesus, he fell on his face and implored him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can (dynasai | δύνασαι | pres pass ind 2 sg) make me clean.” |
| Luke 5:21 | And the scribes and the Pharisees began to ponder, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) to forgive sins except God alone?” |
| Luke 5:34 | So Jesus said to them, “Certainly you (dynasthe | δύνασθε | pres pass ind 2 pl) cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? |
| Luke 6:39 | He spoke to them also a parable: “Can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) a blind man lead a blind man? Won’t they both fall into a ditch? |
| Luke 6:42 | How can (dynasai | δύνασαι | pres pass ind 2 sg) you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye. |
| Luke 8:19 | The mother of Jesus and his brothers came to him, but they (ēdynanto | ἠδύναντο | imperf pass ind 3 pl) were (ēdynanto | ἠδύναντο | imperf pass ind 3 pl) not able (ēdynanto | ἠδύναντο | imperf pass ind 3 pl) to get near him because of the crowd. |
| Luke 9:40 | And I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they (ēdynēthēsan | ἠδυνήθησαν | aor pass ind 3 pl) could (ēdynēthēsan | ἠδυνήθησαν | aor pass ind 3 pl) not.” |
| Luke 11:7 | and he from inside answers, ‘Do not cause me trouble; already the door has been locked and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything.’ |
| Luke 12:25 | And which of you by worrying can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) add a single hour to his span of life? |
| Luke 12:26 | If then, you (dynasthe | δύνασθε | pres pass ind 2 pl) are (dynasthe | δύνασθε | pres pass ind 2 pl) unable to (dynasthe | δύνασθε | pres pass ind 2 pl) accomplish (dynasthe | δύνασθε | pres pass ind 2 pl) such an insignificant thing, why do you worry about other things? |
| Luke 13:11 | and there was a woman there who had had a spirit of weakness for eighteen years. She was bent over and not able (dynamenē | δυναμένη | pres pass ptcp nom sg fem) to straighten up at all. |
| Luke 14:20 | And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and because of this I (dynamai | δύναμαι | pres pass ind 1 sg) am (dynamai | δύναμαι | pres pass ind 1 sg) not able (dynamai | δύναμαι | pres pass ind 1 sg) to come.’ |
| Luke 14:26 | “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. |
| Luke 14:27 | Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. |
| Luke 14:33 | In the same way, therefore, everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple. |
| Luke 16:2 | So he called him in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Hand over the account of your stewardship, because you (dynē | δύνῃ | pres pass ind 2 sg) cannot be (dynē | δύνῃ | pres pass ind 2 sg) my manager any longer.’ |
| Luke 16:13 | “No servant is able (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) to serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” |
| Luke 16:26 | Besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been put in place, so that those wishing to cross over from here to you are (dynōntai | δύνωνται | pres pass subj 3 pl) not able (dynōntai | δύνωνται | pres pass subj 3 pl), and no one can cross from there to us.’ |
| Luke 18:26 | Those who heard it said, “Who, then, can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) be saved?” |
| Luke 19:3 | He was trying to see Jesus — who he was — but was (ēdynato | ἠδύνατο | imperf pass ind 3 sg) not able (ēdynato | ἠδύνατο | imperf pass ind 3 sg) to on account of the crowd, because he was short in stature. |
| Luke 20:36 | In fact, they (dynantai | δύνανται | pres pass ind 3 pl) can (dynantai | δύνανται | pres pass ind 3 pl) no longer die, since they are like angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. |
| Luke 21:15 | For I am the one who will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able (dynēsontai | δυνήσονται | fut pass ind 3 pl) to resist or contradict. |
| John 1:46 | And Nathanael said to him, “Can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” |
| John 3:2 | This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one is able (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) to perform the miraculous signs that you are doing unless God is with him.” |
| John 3:3 | Jesus answered him, saying, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” |
| John 3:4 | Nicodemus said to him, “How can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter into his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?” |
| John 3:5 | Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. |
| John 3:9 | Nicodemus replied, saying to him, “How can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) these things be?” |
| John 3:27 | John responded, saying, “A man cannot receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven. |
| John 5:19 | Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son is doing likewise. |
| John 5:30 | I can (dynamai | δύναμαι | pres pass ind 1 sg) do nothing on my own; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me. |
| John 5:44 | How can (dynasthe | δύνασθε | pres pass ind 2 pl) you believe, when you accept praise from one another but do not seek the praise that comes from the only God? |
| John 6:44 | No one can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. |
| John 6:52 | Then the Jews began to argue with one another, “How can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) this man give us his flesh to eat?” |
| John 6:60 | Therefore, when a number of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is difficult; who can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) understand it?” |
| John 6:65 | And he said, “For this reason I have said to you, ‘No one can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) come to me unless it is granted to him by the Father.’” |
| John 7:7 | The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I am bearing witness against it that its works are evil. |
| John 7:34 | You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot go.” |
| John 7:36 | What can it mean, this saying of his: ‘You will look for me but you will not find me,’ and ‘Where I am you cannot go’?” |
| John 8:21 | Then he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will search for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” |
| John 8:22 | So the Jews said, “Surely he is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” |
Mnemonics
Mnemonics
For me δύναμαι looks close to "dynamite". I can blast through the wall with a stick of δύναμαι cause with it "I'm powerful" and "am able"