adynatos · impossible

What it means

adynatos (ἀδύνατος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “impossible”.

Also powerless.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Powerless, unable to help oneself.
2. What cannot be done.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• impossible ×8
• without strength ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×1
• Acts×1
• Romans×2
• Hebrews×4

• Matthew 19:26

  But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

• Mark 10:27

  Looking at them, Jesus says, “With people it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.”

• Luke 18:27

  But he said, “The things impossible with men are possible with God.”

• Acts 14:8

  And in Lystra a certain man was sitting, without strength in his feet, lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.

• Romans 8:3

  For what was impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did: sending his own Son in the likeness of flesh of sin and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

• Romans 15:1

  Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not to please ourselves.

• Hebrews 6:4

  For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become sharers in the Holy Spirit,

• Hebrews 6:18

  so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge may have strong comfort to hold on to the hope set before us.

• Hebrews 10:4

  For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

• Hebrews 11:6

  And without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who draws near to God must believe that he exists and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.