Greek adjective · G102
ἀδύνατος
adynatosad-oo'-nat-os
of persons; Of things
10 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: adýnatos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G102is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G102
unable, i.e. weak (literally or figuratively); passively, impossible
The King James renders it: could not do, impossible, impotent, not possible, weak.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
adynatos is rendered "of persons; Of things". It stands 10 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "of persons".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 19:26Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Matthew 19:26ἀδύνατόν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: of persons, and Of things.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| of personsunable, powerless | Tagged as
| WhereActs 14:8In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked. |
| Of thingsimpossible | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 19:26Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀδυνατέω | adynateo | be impossible | Uses2 |
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἀδύνατον6
- ἀδύνατα1
- ἀδύνατόν1
- ἀδύνατος1
- ἀδυνάτων1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular6A-NSN
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular1A-ASN
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1A-GPM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter plural1A-NPN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1A-NSM
Matthew
one use
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
- ἀδύνατόνadunatonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: impossible
Mark
one use
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
- ἀδύνατονadunatonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: impossible
Luke
one use
But Jesus said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
- ἀδύναταadunataadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: impossible
Acts
one use
In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
- ἀδύνατοςadunatosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: crippled
Romans
two uses
For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
- ἀδύνατονadunatonadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: powerless
We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
- ἀδυνάτωνadunatonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: weak
Hebrews
four uses
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
- ἀδύνατονadunatonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: impossible
Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
- ἀδύνατονadunatonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: impossible
because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
- ἀδύνατονadunatonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Impossible
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
- ἀδύνατονadunatonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: impossible
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.