Greek Strong's Lexicon

G1849

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

Lemma: ἐξουσία

Transliteration: ex-oo-see'-ah

Definition: from ἔξεστι (in the sense of ability); privilege, i.e. (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence

KJV Definition: authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power, right, strength

Verse usage

  • 1 Korintionan 8:9 NASB
    But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
  • 1 Korintionan 9:4 NASB
    Do we not have a right to eat and drink?
  • 1 Korintionan 9:5 NASB
    Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
  • 1 Korintionan 9:6 NASB
    Or do only Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working?
  • 1 Korintionan 9:12 NASB
    If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this right, but we endure all things so that we will cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Korintionan 9:18 NASB
    What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.
  • 1 Korintionan 11:10 NASB
    Therefore the woman ought to have [a symbol of] authority on her head, because of the angels.
  • 1 Korintionan 15:24 NASB
    then [comes] the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power.
  • 2 Korintionan 10:8 NASB
    For even if I boast somewhat further about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame,
  • 2 Korintionan 13:10 NASB
    For this reason I am writing these things while absent, so that when present I [need] not use severity, in accordance with the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.
  • Efesionan 1:21 NASB
    far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
  • Efesionan 2:2 NASB
    in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
  • Efesionan 3:10 NASB
    so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly [places].
  • Efesionan 6:12 NASB
    For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual [forces] of wickedness in the heavenly [places].
  • Kolosensenan 1:13 NASB
    For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,
  • Kolosensenan 1:16 NASB
    For by Him all things were created, [both] in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-- all things have been created through Him and for Him.
  • Kolosensenan 2:10 NASB
    and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;
  • Kolosensenan 2:15 NASB
    When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.
  • 2 Tesalonisensenan 3:9 NASB
    not because we do not have the right [to this], but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would follow our example.
  • Tito 3:1 NASB
    Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,