ἰσχύς
strength
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G2479 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Revelation. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Revelation
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.
“strength” is the headline sense of the Greek noun ισχυς (ischýs). Its earliest occurrence is Mark 12:30. The Greek New Testament uses it across 10 verses — uncommon. Related forms include εχω, εξης and εξις. See the sense tree, 10-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2479 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.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 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 →
Most concentrated in
- Mark 2 verses 20%
- Ephesians 2 verses 20%
- Revelation 2 verses 20%
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.
- Gospels 3 verses · 30%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 30%
- Johannine 2 verses · 20%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 20%
- Revelation 2 verses · 20%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 10%
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: Strength 4×, Might 2×, Power 2×
- American Standard Version: Strength 5×, Might 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Strength 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Strength 9×, Of 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2479 across 11 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2479 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2479 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 G2479 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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.
- ability, force, strength, might
Word origin
Derived from εχω (échō) (G2192) — to have.
From a derivative of ἱς his ( force ; compare ἔσχον eschon; a form of G2192 ); forcefulness (literally or figuratively): - ability might ([-ily]) power strength.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G2479 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἰσχύος ischýos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Mark 12:30 | 6 |
| ἰσχύϊ ischýï | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 10:27 | 2 |
| ἰσχὺν ischỳn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 5:12 | 1 |
| ἰσχὺς ischỳs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 7:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2479, 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
- εξης hexēs G1836 next in order
- εξις héxis G1838 habit
- εσχατος éschatos G2078 last
- ευνουχος eunoûchos G2135 eunuch
- οχλος óchlos G3793 multitude
- οχυρωμα ochýrōma G3794 fortress
- σχεδον schedón G4975 near
- σχημα schēma G4976 appearance
- σχολη scholḗ G4981 leisure
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ισχυς appears 252 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 244 verses in 33 books.
- 252
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 244
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 33 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 33 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 4:12 ἰσχύς
- Exodus 9:16 ἰσχύς
- Leviticus 26:20 ἰσχύς
- Numbers 14:13 ἰσχύς
- Deuteronomy 3:24 ἰσχύς
- Joshua 6:2 ἰσχύς
- Judges 6:14 ἰσχύς
- Ruth 2:1 ἰσχύς
- 1 Samuel 2:9 ἰσχύς
- 2 Samuel 6:5 ἰσχύς
- 1 Kings 19:8 ἰσχύς
- 2 Kings 5:1 ἰσχύς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2479) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 244. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 4:12 ἰσχύς From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
- Genesis 31:6 ἰσχύς You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
- Genesis 49:3 ἰσχύς "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.
- Exodus 9:16 ἰσχύς but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;
- Exodus 15:6 ἰσχύς Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power, Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
- Exodus 15:13 ἰσχύς "You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
- Exodus 32:11 ἰσχύς Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
- Exodus 32:18 ἰσχύς He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear."
- Leviticus 26:20 ἰσχύς and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
- Numbers 14:13 ἰσχύς Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;
- Numbers 14:17 ἰσχύς Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
- Numbers 24:18 ἰσχύς Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession, [who were] his enemies; While Israel does valiantly.
- Deuteronomy 3:24 ἰσχύς Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your mighty acts?
- Deuteronomy 4:37 ἰσχύς Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
- Deuteronomy 8:17 ἰσχύς and [lest] you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.
- Deuteronomy 8:18 ἰσχύς But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.
- Deuteronomy 9:26 ἰσχύς I prayed to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, don't destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
- Deuteronomy 9:29 ἰσχύς Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.
- Deuteronomy 26:8 ἰσχύς and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders;
- Deuteronomy 32:13 ἰσχύς He made him ride on the high places of the earth, He ate the increase of the field; He made him to suck honey out of the rock, Oil out of the flinty rock;
- Deuteronomy 33:11 ἰσχύς Bless, Yahweh, his substance, Accept the work of his hands: Smite through the loins of those who rise up against him, Of those who hate him, that they not rise again.
- Deuteronomy 33:25 ἰσχύς Your bars shall be iron and brass; As your days, so shall your strength be.
- Deuteronomy 33:27 ἰσχύς The eternal God is [your] dwelling-place, Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, Said, Destroy.
- Joshua 6:2 ἰσχύς Yahweh said to Joshua, Behold, I have given into your hand Jericho, and the king of it, and the mighty men of valor.
- Joshua 8:3 ἰσχύς So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.
- Joshua 10:7 ἰσχύς So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.
- Joshua 14:11 ἰσχύς As yet I am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in.
- Joshua 17:17 ἰσχύς Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, You are a great people, and have great power; you shall not have one lot only:
- Judges 6:14 ἰσχύς Yahweh looked at him, and said, Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent you?
- Judges 16:5 ἰσχύς The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will each give you of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.
- Judges 16:6 ἰσχύς Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, Please, in which your great strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you.
- Judges 16:9 ἰσχύς Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. She said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.
- Judges 16:15 ἰσχύς She said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? you have mocked me these three times, and have not told me in which your great strength lies.
- Judges 16:17 ἰσχύς He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man."
- Judges 16:19 ἰσχύς She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
- Judges 16:30 ἰσχύς Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
- Ruth 2:1 ἰσχύς Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
- 1 Samuel 2:9 ἰσχύς He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.
- 1 Samuel 2:10 ἰσχύς Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces; Against them will he thunder in the sky: Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth; He will give strength to his king, Exalt the horn of his anointed.
- 1 Samuel 28:20 ἰσχύς Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
- 1 Samuel 28:22 ἰσχύς Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength, when you go on your way.
- 1 Samuel 30:4 ἰσχύς Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
- 2 Samuel 6:5 ἰσχύς David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all manner of [instruments made of] fir-wood, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with tambourines, and with castanets, and with cymbals.
- 2 Samuel 22:18 ἰσχύς He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
- 2 Samuel 24:2 ἰσχύς The king said to Joab the captain of the host, who was with him, Go now back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number you the people, that I may know the sum of the people.
- 2 Samuel 24:4 ἰσχύς Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
- 1 Kings 19:8 ἰσχύς He arose, and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.
- 2 Kings 5:1 ἰσχύς Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, [but he was] a leper.
- 2 Kings 15:20 ἰσχύς Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn't stay there in the land.
- 2 Kings 17:36 ἰσχύς but Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, him shall you fear, and to him shall you bow yourselves, and to him shall you sacrifice:
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2479) 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.
