Bill Mounce

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δύναμαι

Vocabulary form: 
δύναμαι
Definition: 

I am able

Frequency: 
210
GK: 
1538
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

Mnemonics

dunamai as in 'duh I am able'

Biblical Concordance

Matthew 3:9 and do not presume you can 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) from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hidden.
Matthew 5:36 Nor shall you take an oath by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black.
Matthew 6:24 “No one can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) 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 possessions.
Matthew 6:27 And which of you by being anxious can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) add a single cubit to his height?
Matthew 7:18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) an unhealthy tree bear good fruit.
Matthew 8:2 A leper came up to him, knelt down, and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can (dynasai | δύνασαι | pres pass ind 2 sg) make me clean.”
Matthew 9:15 And Jesus said to them, “Certainly the wedding guests can’t mourn as long as the bridegroom is still with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away and then they will fast!
Matthew 9:28 When he had gone into the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able (dynamai | δύναμαι | pres pass ind 1 sg) to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”
Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who can kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, fear the one who can (dynamenon | δυνάμενον | pres pass ptcp acc sg masc) destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 12:29 Or how can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) someone enter the strong man’s house and carry off his belongings, unless he first ties up the strong man? And then he will ransack his house.
Matthew 12:34 You offspring of snakes! How can (dynasthe | δύνασθε | pres pass ind 2 pl) you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Matthew 16:3 and in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you (dynasthe | δύνασθε | pres pass ind 2 pl) cannot evaluate the signs of the times?
Matthew 17:16 And I brought him to your disciples but they (ēdynēthēsan | ἠδυνήθησαν | aor pass ind 3 pl) could (ēdynēthēsan | ἠδυνήθησαν | aor pass ind 3 pl) not heal him.”
Matthew 17:19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could (ēdynēthēmen | ἠδυνήθημεν | aor pass ind 1 pl) we not cast it out?”
Matthew 19:12 For there are eunuchs who have been that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able (dynamenos | δυνάμενος | pres pass ptcp nom sg masc) to accept this should accept it.”
Matthew 19:25 When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astounded and said, “Who then can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) be saved?”
Matthew 20:22 Jesus answered, saying, “You do not realize what you are asking. Are you able (dynasthe | δύνασθε | pres pass ind 2 pl) to drink the cup that I am about to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.” (dynametha | δυνάμεθα | pres pass ind 1 pl)
Matthew 22:46 And no one was able (edynato | ἐδύνατο | imperf pass ind 3 sg) to answer him a word, nor did anyone dare to question him any more from that day on.
Matthew 26:9 For this could (edynato | ἐδύνατο | imperf pass ind 3 sg) have been sold for a high price and the money given to the poor.”
Matthew 26:42 Once again he went away and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, may your will be done.”
Matthew 26:53 Or do you think that I (dynamai | δύναμαι | pres pass ind 1 sg) cannot ask of my Father, and he will immediately place at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
Matthew 26:61 and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able (dynamai | δύναμαι | pres pass ind 1 sg) to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”
Matthew 27:42 “He saved others, but he (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) cannot (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) save himself! He is the king of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him!
Mark 1:40 And a leper came to him, leper pleading for help and falling on his knees he exclaimed “If you are willing, you can (dynasai | δύνασαι | pres pass ind 2 sg) make me clean!”
Mark 1:45 However, he went out and began to announce it publicly and spread abroad the news, so that no longer Jesus could (dynasthai | δύνασθαι | pres pass inf ) no longer openly enter a town, enter but stayed out in unpopulated areas. stayed Yet people kept coming to him from every quarter.
Mark 2:4 When (dynamenoi | δυνάμενοι | pres pass ptcp nom pl masc) they (dynamenoi | δυνάμενοι | pres pass ptcp nom pl masc) were (dynamenoi | δυνάμενοι | pres pass ptcp nom pl masc) unable to carry him in because of the crowd, they broke through the roof above Jesus, and when they had dug out an opening, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.
Mark 2:7 “Why does this man speak like that? It is blasphemy! Who can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) forgive sins except the One the God?”
Mark 2:19 And Jesus said to them, Jesus No, “Do (dynantai | δύνανται | pres pass ind 3 pl) the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? is fast No, as long as they have the bridegroom with them, not they do (dynantai | δύνανται | pres pass ind 3 pl) not fast.
Mark 3:20 Then Jesus went to his house, and again a crowd gathered, so that they were (dynasthai | δύνασθαι | pres pass inf ) not even able (dynasthai | δύνασθαι | pres pass inf ) they even to eat a meal.
Mark 3:23 So he called them together in parables: and began speaking to them in parables: “How can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) Satan drive out Satan?
Mark 3:24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, is divided that kingdom cannot (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) stand. kingdom that
Mark 3:25 And if a house is divided against itself, is divided that house cannot (dynēsetai | δυνήσεται | fut pass ind 3 sg) stand.
Mark 3:26 And if Satan rises against himself and is divided, he (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) cannot (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) stand but is coming to an end.
Mark 3:27 But no one can (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) no one enter the house of the strong man and carry off his possessions his carry off unless first he ties up the strong man; he ties up then he can rob his house. his he can rob
Mark 4:32 Yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, large so that the birds of the air are able (dynasthai | δύνασθαι | pres pass inf ) to nest in its shade.”
Mark 4:33 So with many parables such as these he spoke the word to them, as they were able (ēdynanto | ἠδύναντο | imperf pass ind 3 pl) to understand.
Mark 5:3 He had his dwelling had among the tombs, and no one could (edynato | ἐδύνατο | imperf pass ind 3 sg) bind him any longer, not even with a chain.
Mark 6:5 And 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) there, to do any mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people laid on his hands and healed them.
Mark 6:19 So Herodias was nursing a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she (ēdynato | ἠδύνατο | imperf pass ind 3 sg) was (ēdynato | ἠδύνατο | imperf pass ind 3 sg) not able (ēdynato | ἠδύνατο | imperf pass ind 3 sg) to do it,
Mark 7:15 There is nothing that enters a man from outside that is able (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) to defile him. Rather the things that come out of a man are the things that defile him.”
Mark 7:18 So he said to them, “Are you too so lacking in understanding? Do you not know that nothing coming into a man from outside is (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) able (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) to defile him,
Mark 7:24 From there Jesus arose and went to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, yet he (ēdynēthē | ἠδυνήθη | aor pass ind 3 sg) was (ēdynēthē | ἠδυνήθη | aor pass ind 3 sg) not able (ēdynēthē | ἠδυνήθη | aor pass ind 3 sg) to escape attention.
Mark 8:4 And his disciples answered him, “From what source can (dynēsetai | δυνήσεται | fut pass ind 3 sg) anyone feed these people with bread here in this desolate place?”
Mark 9:3 and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no launderer on earth could (dynatai | δύναται | pres pass ind 3 sg) bleach them.
Mark 9:22 indeed frequently it has even cast him into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you can do (dynē | δύνῃ | pres pass ind 2 sg) anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
Mark 9:23 And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! (dynē | δύνῃ | pres pass ind 2 sg) All things are possible for the one who has faith.”
Mark 9:28 And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him in private, “Why were (ēdynēthēmen | ἠδυνήθημεν | aor pass ind 1 pl) we not able (ēdynēthēmen | ἠδυνήθημεν | aor pass ind 1 pl) to cast it out?”
Mark 9:29 And he said to them, “This kind cannot come out except by prayer.”
Mark 9:39 But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name and be able (dynēsetai | δυνήσεται | fut mid ind 3 sg) soon after to speak evil of me.

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