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δύναμις

power

G1411 Strong's Greek
dýnamis Transliteration
/doo'-nam-is/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 119 appearances

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About this entry

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δυναμις — transliterated dýnamis — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “power.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 7:22. It appears 115 verses across 18 books of the Greek New Testament, among its common vocabulary. It shares a root with δυναμαι, δυναστης and δυνατος. See the sense tree, 115-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
ability
Modern gloss
power
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1411 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 →

115
distinct verses
The word appears in 115 distinct verses.
18 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 18 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 7:22
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 7:22.
Revelation 19:1
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 19:1.
#138
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 138 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 115 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 37 · 32%
  • Acts 10 · 9%
  • Pauline Epistles 45 · 39%
  • General Epistles 11 · 10%
  • Revelation 12 · 10%

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 115 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 45 verses · 39%
  • Gospels 37 verses · 32%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 25 verses · 22%
  • Johannine 12 verses · 10%
  • Revelation 12 verses · 10%
  • Hebrews 6 verses · 5%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 5 verses · 4%

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: Power 71×, Mighty works 10×, Miracles 7×
  • American Standard Version: Power 83×, Mighty works 11×, Powers 7×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Power 77×, Miracles 18×, Powers 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Power 83×, Miracles 13×, Powers 8×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1411 across 119 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Power” 71×
  • “Mighty works” 10×
  • “Miracles” 7×
  • “Strength” 7×
  • “Powers” 6×
  • “Might” 4×
  • “Virtue” 3×
  • “Mighty” 2×

Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1411 across 122 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Power” 83×
  • “Mighty works” 11×
  • “Powers” 7×
  • “Miracles” 4×
  • “Might” 2×
  • “Mighty work” 2×
  • “Of” 2×

Plus 11 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 G1411 across 116 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Power” 77×
  • “Miracles” 18×
  • “Powers” 5×
  • “Miraculous powers” 3×
  • “Ability” 2×

Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1411 across 124 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Power” 83×
  • “Miracles” 13×
  • “Powers” 8×
  • “Ability” 5×
  • “Of” 3×
  • “Mighty works” 2×

Plus 10 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 1 sense 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.

  1. strength power, ability

Word origin

Derived from δυναμαι (dýnamai) (G1410) — to be able.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TDNT: 06:44,2

From G1410 ; force (literally or figuratively); specifically miraculous power (usually by implication a miracle itself): - ability abundance meaning might (-ily -y -y deed) (worker of) miracle (-s) power strength violence mighty (wonderful) work.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 10 distinct written forms G1411 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
δύναμιν dýnamin Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 22:29 31
δυνάμει dynámei Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine Mark 9:1 26
δυνάμεως dynámeōs Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Matthew 24:30 21
δυνάμεις dynámeis Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 11:20 19
δύναμις dýnamis Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Luke 1:35 13
δυνάμεων dynámeōn Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine Luke 19:37 3
δυνάμεσιν dynámesin Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine 2 Corinthians 12:12 2
δύναμίν dýnamín Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Romans 9:17 2
Δυνάμεις Dynámeis Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine Acts 19:11 1
δυνάμεσι dynámesi Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine Acts 2:22 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1411, 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

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word δυναμις appears 380 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 360 verses in 30 books.

380
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
360
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
30 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 30 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1411) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 360. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1411) 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.

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