ἀδύνατος
weak
‘weak’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G102 appears in the Book of Matthew — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, αδυνατος (adýnatos) means “weak.” It first appears in Matthew 19:26. It turns up in 10 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Hebrews (40%), then Romans and Matthew. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 10-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G102 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,056
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Hebrews 4 verses · 40%
- Gospels 3 verses · 30%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 20%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Is impossible 3×
- American Standard Version: Is impossible 5×, Impossible 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Impossible 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Is impossible 4×, Impossible 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G102 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G102 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G102 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G102 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- without strength, impotent, powerless, weakly, disabled
- unable to be done, impossible
Word origin
Derived from Α (A) (G1) — alpha.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G102 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀδύνατον adýnaton | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Mark 10:27 | 6 |
| ἀδυνάτων adynátōn | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Romans 15:1 | 1 |
| ἀδύνατα adýnata | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Neuter | Luke 18:27 | 1 |
| ἀδύνατος adýnatos | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 14:8 | 1 |
| ἀδύνατόν adýnatón | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 19:26 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G102, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- αβαρης abarḗs G4 light
- αβυσσος ábyssos G12 abyss
- αγαμος ágamos G22 unmarried
- αγενεαλογητος agenealógētos G35 without genealogy
- αγενης agenḗs G36 ignoble
- αγναφος ágnaphos G46 unprocessed
- αγνοεω agnoéō G50 to be ignorant
- αγνωσια agnōsía G56 ignorance
- αγνωστος ágnōstos G57 unknown
- αγραμματος agrámmatos G62 unlearned
- αγρυπνεω agrypnéō G69 to watch
- αδαπανος adápanos G77 free
- αδελφος adelphós G80 brother
- αδηλος ádēlos G82 obscure
- αδης háidēs G86 hell
- αδιακριτος adiákritos G87 clear
- αδιαλειπτος adiáleiptos G88 continual
- αδικος ádikos G94 unjust
- αδοκιμος adókimos G96 unapproved
- αδολος ádolos G97 guileless
- αζυμος ázymos G106 unleavened
- αθανασια athanasía G110 immortal
- αθεμιτος athémitos G111 unlawful
- αθεος átheos G112 godless
+149 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 177 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αδυνατος appears 16 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 16 verses in 3 books.
- 16
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 16
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 5:15 ἀδύνατος
- Proverbs 30:18 ἀδύνατος
- Joel 4:10 ἀδύνατος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G102) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 5:15 ἀδύνατος But he saves from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
- Job 5:16 ἀδύνατος So the poor has hope, And injustice shuts her mouth.
- Job 20:19 ἀδύνατος For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
- Job 24:4 ἀδύνατος They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
- Job 24:6 ἀδύνατος They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
- Job 24:22 ἀδύνατος Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
- Job 29:16 ἀδύνατος I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
- Job 30:25 ἀδύνατος Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?
- Job 31:16 ἀδύνατος "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
- Job 31:20 ἀδύνατος If his heart hasn't blessed me, If he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;
- Job 31:34 ἀδύνατος Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door--
- Job 34:20 ἀδύνατος In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, The mighty are taken away without hand.
- Job 36:15 ἀδύνατος He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, And opens their ear in oppression.
- Job 36:19 ἀδύνατος Would your wealth sustain you in distress, Or all the might of your strength?
- Proverbs 30:18 ἀδύνατος "There are three things which are too amazing for me, Four which I don't understand:
- Joel 4:10 ἀδύνατος
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G102) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
