δύναμαι
dunamai
be able
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word δύναμαι (dunamai) is a verb that means "to be able" or "to have power." It is used 210 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in the Greek language and its importance in conveying various ideas related to ability, power, and capacity. The range of usage for δύναμαι is quite broad, encompassing physical, mental, and spiritual abilities. It can describe a person's physical strength, their ability to perform a task, or their capacity to understand or believe something. In some cases, it may also imply a sense of power or authority, as when someone is said to have the ability to heal or to perform miracles. The significance of δύναμαι lies in its emphasis on the idea that ability and power are not inherent, but rather are something that can be developed or granted. This word highlights the importance of recognizing one's limitations and capabilities, and of seeking to grow and improve in various areas of life.
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Occurrences in Scripture
210 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Matthew 5:14You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.
Matthew 5:36Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black.
Matthew 6:24“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
Matthew 6:24“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
Matthew 6:27“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
Matthew 7:18A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.
Matthew 8:2Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”
Matthew 9:15Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
Matthew 9:28When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”
Matthew 10:28Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
Matthew 10:28Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
Matthew 12:29Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.
Matthew 12:34You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Matthew 16:3In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!
Matthew 17:16So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”
Matthew 17:19Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”
Matthew 19:12For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”
Matthew 19:25When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”
Matthew 20:22But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”
Matthew 20:22But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”
Matthew 22:46No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.
Matthew 26:9For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.”
Matthew 26:42Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”
Matthew 26:53Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
Matthew 26:61and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’ ”
Matthew 27:42“He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.
Mark 1:40A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.”
Mark 1:45But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places. People came to him from everywhere.
Mark 2:4When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.
Mark 2:7“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
Mark 2:19Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast.
Mark 2:19Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast.
Mark 3:20The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
Mark 3:23He summoned them, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?
Mark 3:24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Mark 3:25If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Mark 3:26If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can’t stand, but has an end.
Mark 3:27But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then he will plunder his house.
Mark 4:32yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”
Mark 4:33With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
Mark 5:3He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,
Mark 6:5He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people, and healed them.
Mark 6:19Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,
Mark 7:15There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
Mark 7:18He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,
Mark 7:24From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice.
Mark 8:4His disciples answered him, “From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?”
Mark 9:3His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.
Mark 9:22Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.”