ἐνισχύω
to strengthen
‘to strengthen’ 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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1765 appears in the Book of Luke — 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.
Luke
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.
ενισχυω — transliterated enischýō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to strengthen.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. Its uses cluster heavily in Luke (50% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is Luke 22:43. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1765 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 100%
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
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: He was strengthened 1×, Strengthening 1×
- American Standard Version: Strengthened 1×, Strengthening 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: He regained his strength 1×, Strengthened 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: He was strengthened 1×, Strengthening 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1765 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1765 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1765 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1765 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- to grow strong, to receive strength
- to make strong, to strengthen
Word origin
Derived from εν (en) (G1722).
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1765 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐνίσχυσεν eníschysen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 9:19 | 1 |
| ἐνισχύων enischýōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 22:43 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1765, 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
- εγγραφω engráphō G1449 to inscribe
- εγγυος éngyos G1450 surety
- εγκαθετος enkáthetos G1455 to spy
- εγκαινια enkaínia G1456 dedication
- εγκαλεω enkaléō G1458 to accuse
- εγκαταλειπω enkataleípō G1459 to abandon
- εγκατοικεω enkatoikéō G1460 to dwell
- εγκεντριζω enkentrízō G1461 to graft
- εγκομβοομαι enkombóomai G1463 band
- εγκοπτω enkóptō G1465 to hinder
- εγκρατης enkratḗs G1468 strong
- εγκρινω enkrínō G1469 to judge worthy
- εγκρυπτω enkrýptō G1470 to conceal
- εγκυος énkyos G1471 pregnant
- εγχριω enchríō G1472 to anoint
- ελλογεω ellogéō G1677 impute
- εμβαινω embaínō G1684 to enter
- εμβαλλω embállō G1685 to cast in
- εμβαπτω embáptō G1686 to dip in
- εμβατευω embateúō G1687 to enter
- εμβιβαζω embibázō G1688 to lead in
- εμβλεπω emblépō G1689 to look at
- εμβριμαομαι embrimáomai G1690 to warn sternly
- εμμαινομαι emmaínomai G1693 to rage against
+58 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 84 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ενισχυω appears 43 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 43 verses in 15 books.
- 43
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 43
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 12:10 ἐνἰσχύω
- Deuteronomy 32:43 ἐνἰσχύω
- Judges 1:28 ἐνἰσχύω
- 2 Samuel 16:21 ἐνἰσχύω
- 2 Kings 12:9 ἐνἰσχύω
- 1 Chronicles 4:23 ἐνἰσχύω
- 2 Chronicles 1:1 ἐνἰσχύω
- Ezra 1:6 ἐνἰσχύω
- Psalms 147:2 ἐνἰσχύω
- Isaiah 33:23 ἐνἰσχύω
- Jeremiah 6:1 ἐνἰσχύω
- Ezekiel 27:9 ἐνἰσχύω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1765) 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.
- Genesis 12:10 ἐνἰσχύω There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land.
- Genesis 32:29 ἐνἰσχύω Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.
- Genesis 33:14 ἐνἰσχύω Please let my lord pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."
- Genesis 43:1 ἐνἰσχύω The famine was severe in the land.
- Genesis 47:4 ἐνἰσχύω They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
- Genesis 47:13 ἐνἰσχύω There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
- Genesis 48:2 ἐνἰσχύω Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you," and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.
- Deuteronomy 32:43 ἐνἰσχύω Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people: For he will avenge the blood of his servants, Will render vengeance to his adversaries, Will make expiation for his land, for his people.
- Judges 1:28 ἐνἰσχύω It happened, when Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.
- Judges 3:12 ἐνἰσχύω The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
- Judges 9:24 ἐνἰσχύω that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
- Judges 16:28 ἐνἰσχύω Samson called to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, remember me, Please, and strengthen me, Please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
- Judges 20:22 ἐνἰσχύω The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
- 2 Samuel 16:21 ἐνἰσχύω Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you are abhorred of your father: then will the hands of all who are with you be strong.
- 2 Samuel 22:40 ἐνἰσχύω For you have girded me with strength to the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
- 2 Kings 12:9 ἐνἰσχύω But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of Yahweh: and the priests who kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 25:3 ἐνἰσχύω On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
- 1 Chronicles 4:23 ἐνἰσχύω These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work.
- 1 Chronicles 15:21 ἐνἰσχύω and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.
- 1 Chronicles 19:13 ἐνἰσχύω Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.
- 2 Chronicles 1:1 ἐνἰσχύω Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
- 2 Chronicles 24:13 ἐνἰσχύω So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it.
- Ezra 1:6 ἐνἰσχύω All those who were round about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.
- Ezra 9:12 ἐνἰσχύω now therefore don't give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.
- Ezra 20:30 ἐνἰσχύω
- Psalms 147:2 ἐνἰσχύω Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
- Isaiah 33:23 ἐνἰσχύω Your rigging is untied; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.
- Isaiah 41:10 ἐνἰσχύω Don't you be afraid, for I am with you; don't be dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
- Isaiah 42:6 ἐνἰσχύω I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
- Isaiah 57:10 ἐνἰσχύω You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't say, It is in vain: you found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren't faint.
- Jeremiah 6:1 ἐνἰσχύω Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.
- Jeremiah 9:2 ἐνἰσχύω Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
- Ezekiel 27:9 ἐνἰσχύω The old men of Gebal and the wise men of it were in you your repairers of ship seams: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.
- Ezekiel 30:25 ἐνἰσχύω I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 34:4 ἐνἰσχύω You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have you ruled over them.
- Ezekiel 34:16 ἐνἰσχύω I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
- Daniel 10:19 ἐνἰσχύω He said, "Greatly beloved man, don't be afraid: peace be to you, be strong, yes, be strong." When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, "Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me."
- Daniel 11:1 ἐνἰσχύω "As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.
- Daniel 11:5 ἐνἰσχύω The king of the south shall be strong, and [one] of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.
- Hosea 10:11 ἐνἰσχύω Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; So I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.
- Hosea 12:4 ἐνἰσχύω Indeed, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; He wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
- Hosea 12:5 ἐνἰσχύω Even Yahweh, the God of hosts; Yahweh is his name of renown!
- Joel 4:16 ἐνἰσχύω
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1765) 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.
