Adunatos ἀδύνατος

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Adunatos
ἀδύνατος
Transliterationadunatos
Strong's numberG102
LanguageGreek
Part of speechadjective
Glossunable
Occurrences10 in 10 verses
Most frequent inHebrews (4)

Adunatos (Greek ἀδύνατος, Strong's G102) is a Greek adjective meaning “unable”. It occurs 10 times in 10 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

ἀ-δύνατος, -ον,
[in LXX for אֶבְיוֹן, דַּל, etc. ;]
1. of persons, unable, powerless: Act.14:8; figuratively Rom.15:1 (MM, VGT, see word).
2. Of things, impossible: Mat.19:26, Mrk.10:27, Luk.18:27, Rom.8:3, Heb.6:4,18 10:4 11:6.
† (AS)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVimpossible (6), impotent (1), do (1), weak (1), possible (1)
BSBimpossible (7), crippled (1), was powerless to do (1), weak (1)

Verses

Every verse with Adunatos, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Matthew

Mark

Luke

Acts

Romans

Hebrews

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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