Definition
I am powerful, am able
Vocabulary Form
δύναμαι
Erasmian
Modern
Root
δυνα
Frequency
210
GK
1538
Forms
(ἠδυνάμην), δυνήσομαι, -, -, -, ἠδυνήθην or ἠδυνάσθην
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
| 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’?” |