κράτος
power
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Nominative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G2904 appears in the Genitive case, across 1 book. 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.
Ephesians 1 verse
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.
The Greek noun κρατος centers on the idea of “power.” Its earliest occurrence is Luke 1:51. The Greek New Testament uses it across 12 verses — uncommon. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. Sharing its root, it stands alongside καρτερεω, κραταιος and κρατεω. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2904 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 9 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ephesians 2 verses 17%
- 1 Peter 2 verses 17%
- Revelation 2 verses 17%
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 12 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 4 verses · 33%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 25%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 17%
- Johannine 2 verses · 17%
- Revelation 2 verses · 17%
- Gospels 1 verse · 8%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 8%
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 6×, Dominion 4×
- American Standard Version: Dominion 5×, Power 3×, Strength 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Power 5×, Dominion 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Power 9×, Force 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2904 across 11 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2904 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G2904 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 G2904 across 12 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 3 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.
- force, strength
- power, might: mighty with great power
- dominion
Word origin
Origin: perhaps a primary word
Perhaps a primary word; vigor [great] (literally or figuratively): - dominion might [-ily] power strength.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2904 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κράτος krátos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | 1 Timothy 6:16 | 10 |
| κράτει krátei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Ephesians 6:10 | 1 |
| κράτους krátous | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Ephesians 1:19 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2904, 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.
Derived from this word
- καρτερεω karteréō G2594 to be steadfast
- κραταιος krataiós G2900 mighty
- κρατεω kratéō G2902 to have power
- κρατιστος krátistos G2903 mightiest
- κρειττων kreíttōn G2909 more excellent
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κρατος appears 18 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 18 verses in 9 books.
- 18
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 18
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 49:24 κράτος
- Deuteronomy 8:17 κράτος
- Judges 4:3 κράτος
- Ezra 8:22 κράτος
- Job 12:16 κράτος
- Psalms 58:10 κράτος
- Proverbs 27:24 κράτος
- Isaiah 22:21 κράτος
- Daniel 4:23 κράτος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2904) 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 49:24 κράτος But his bow abode in strength, The arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
- Deuteronomy 8:17 κράτος and [lest] you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.
- Judges 4:3 κράτος The children of Israel cried to Yahweh: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
- Ezra 8:22 κράτος For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.
- Ezra 14:11 κράτος
- Job 12:16 κράτος With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
- Job 21:23 κράτος One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet.
- Psalms 58:10 κράτος The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
- Psalms 61:13 κράτος
- Psalms 75:4 κράτος I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast;" To the wicked, "Don't lift up the horn.
- Psalms 85:16 κράτος
- Psalms 88:10 κράτος Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah.
- Psalms 89:11 κράτος The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; The world and its fullness. You have founded them.
- Proverbs 27:24 κράτος For riches are not forever, Nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
- Isaiah 22:21 κράτος and I will cloth him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt, and I will commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
- Isaiah 40:26 κράτος Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
- Isaiah 41:13 κράτος For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, Don't be afraid; I will help you.
- Daniel 4:23 κράτος Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of the roots of it in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2904) 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.
