King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G101
Transliteration: adynateō
Phonetic Spelling: (ad-oo-nat-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be unable
Meaning: to be unable
ἀδυνατέω, (ῶ: future ἀδυνατήσω; (ἀδύνατος);
Word Summary
adynateō: to be unable
Original Word: ἀδυνατέωTransliteration: adynateō
Phonetic Spelling: (ad-oo-nat-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be unable
Meaning: to be unable
Strong's Concordance
be impossible. From adunatos; to be unable, i.e. (passively) impossible -- be impossible.
see GREEK adunatos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 101: ἀδυνατέωἀδυνατέω, (ῶ: future ἀδυνατήσω; (ἀδύνατος);
a. not to have strength, to be weak; always so of persons in classic Greek
b. a thing ἀδυνατεῖ, cannot be done, is impossible; so only in the Sept. and N. T.: οὐκ ἀδυνατήσει παρά τῷ Θεῷ (τοῦ Θεοῦ L marginal reading T Tr WH) πᾶν ῤῆμα, Luke 1:37 (the Sept. Genesis 18:14) (others retain the active sense here: from God no word shall be without power, see παρά, I.
b. cf. Field, Otium Norv. pars iii. at the passage); οὐδέν ἀδυνατήσει ὑμῖν, Matthew 17:20 (Job 42:2).