Lexical Summary adynatos: unable, powerless Original Word: ἀδύνατοςTransliteration: adynatos Phonetic Spelling: (ad-oo'-nat-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: unable, powerless Meaning: unable, powerless Strong's Concordance impossible, impotent, weak. From a (as a negative particle) and dunatos; unable, i.e. Weak (literally or figuratively); passively, impossible -- could not do, impossible, impotent, not possible, weak. see GREEK a see GREEK dunatos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 102: ἀδύνατοςἀδύνατος, (δύναμαι) (from Herodotus down); 1. without strength, impotent: τοῖς ποσί, Acts 14:8; figuratively, of Christians whose faith is not yet quite firm, Romans 15:1 (opposed to δυνατός). 2. impossible (in contrast with δυνατόν): παρά τίνι, for (with) anyone, Matthew 19:26; Mark 10:27; Luke 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)), Romans 8:3; followed by the accusative with an infinitive, Hebrews 6:4, 18; Hebrews 10:4; by an infinitive, Hebrews 11:6. |
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