ἰσχύω (ἰσχύς), [in LXX for חָזַק, גִּבּוֹר, עָצַם, etc. ;] 1. to be strong in body: Mat.9:12, Mrk.2:17. 2. to be powerful, have power, prevail: Act.19:20, Rev.12:8; before κατά, with genitive of person(s), Act.19:16; with inf., to be able (MM, Exp., xv): Mat.8:28 26:40, Mrk.5:4 9:18 (inf. understood) Mrk.14:37, Luk.6:48 8:43 13:24 14:6, 29-30 16:3 20:26, Jhn.21:6, Act.6:10 15:10 25:7 27:16; with accusative, Php.4:13, Jas.5:16; of things, to avail, be serviceable (MM, Exp., l.with): Mat.5:13, Gal.5:6, Heb.9:17 (cf. ἐν-, ἐξ-, ἐπ-, κατ-ισχύω).† (AS)
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G2480 — ἰσχύω
ischuō · be strong · Greek
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Matthew 5:13 · ἰσχύει‘Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.Matthew 8:28 · ἰσχύεινAnd he having come to the other side, to the region of the Gergesenes, there met him two demoniacs, coming forth out of the tombs, very fierce, so that no one was able to pass over by that way,Matthew 9:12 · ἰσχύοντεςAnd Jesus having heard, said to them, ‘They who are whole have no need of a physician, but they who are ill;Matthew 26:40 · ἰσχύσατεAnd he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter, ‘So! ye were not able one hour to watch with me!Mark 2:17 · ἰσχύοντεςAnd Jesus, having heard, saith to them, ‘They who are strong have no need of a physician, but they who are ill; I came not to call righteous men, but sinners to reformation.’Mark 5:4 · ἴσχυενbecause that he many times with fetters and chains had been bound, and pulled in pieces by him had been the chains, and the fetters broken in pieces, and none was able to tame him,Mark 9:18 · ἴσχυσαν.¶and wherever it doth seize him, it doth tear him, and he foameth, and gnasheth his teeth, and pineth away; and I spake to thy disciples that they may cast it out, and they were not able.’Mark 14:37 · ἴσχυσαςAnd he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith to Peter, ‘Simon, thou dost sleep! thou wast not able to watch one hour!Luke 6:48 · ἴσχυσενhe is like to a man building a house, who did dig, and deepen, and laid a foundation upon the rock, and a flood having come, the stream broke forth on that house, and was not able to shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock.Luke 8:43 · ἴσχυσενand a woman, having an issue of blood for twelve years, who, having spent on physicians all her living, was not able to be healed by any,Luke 13:24 · ἰσχύσουσιν.‘Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;Luke 14:6 · ἴσχυσανand they were not able to answer him again unto these things.Luke 14:29 · ἰσχύοντοςlest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him,Luke 14:30 · ἴσχυσενsaying—This man began to build, and was not able to finish.Luke 16:3 · ἰσχύω,‘And the steward said in himself, What shall I do, because my lord doth take away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed:—Luke 20:26 · ἴσχυσανand they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.John 21:6 · ἴσχυονthey answered him, ‘No;’ and he said to them, ‘Cast the net at the right side of the boat, and ye shall find;’ they cast, therefore, and no longer were they able to draw it, from the multitude of the fishes.Acts 6:10 · ἴσχυονand they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking;Acts 15:10 · ἰσχύσαμενnow, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?Acts 19:16 · ἴσχυσενAnd the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaping upon them, and having overcome them, prevailed against them, so that naked and wounded they did flee out of that house,Acts 19:20 · ἴσχυεν.¶so powerfully was the word of God increasing and prevailing.Acts 25:7 · ἴσχυονand he having come, there stood round about the Jews who have come down from Jerusalem—many and weighty charges they are bringing against Paul, which they were not able to prove,Acts 27:16 · ἰσχύσαμενand having run under a certain little isle, called Clauda, we were hardly able to become masters of the boat,Galatians 5:6 · ἰσχύειfor in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.Philippians 4:13 · ἰσχύωFor all things I have strength, in Christ’s strengthening me;Hebrews 9:17 · ἰσχύειfor a covenant over dead victims is stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,James 5:16 · ἰσχύειBe confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;Revelation 12:8 · ἴσχυσεν,and they did not prevail, nor was their place found any more in the heaven;