Greek Strong's Lexicon

G2480

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

Lemma: ἰσχύω

Transliteration: is-khoo'-o

Definition: from ἰσχύς; to have (or exercise) force (literally or figuratively)

KJV Definition: be able, avail, can do(-not), could, be good, might, prevail, be of strength, be whole, + much work

Verse usage

  • Mateo 5:13 NASB
    "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty [again]? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.
  • Mateo 8:28 NASB
    When He came to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, two men who were demon- possessed met Him as they were coming out of the tombs. [They were] so extremely violent that no one could pass by that way.
  • Marko 5:4 NASB
    because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.
  • Marko 9:18 NASB
    and whenever it seizes him, it slams him [to the ground] and he foams [at the mouth], and grinds his teeth and stiffens out. I told Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not [do it]."
  • Lukas 6:48 NASB
    he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.
  • Lukas 8:43 NASB
    And a woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone,
  • Lukas 13:24 NASB
    "Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
  • Lukas 14:6 NASB
    And they could make no reply to this.
  • Lukas 14:29 NASB
    "Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him,
  • Lukas 14:30 NASB
    saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.'
  • Lukas 16:3 NASB
    "The manager said to himself, 'What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.
  • Lukas 20:26 NASB
    And they were unable to catch Him in a saying in the presence of the people; and being amazed at His answer, they became silent.
  • Huan 21:6 NASB
    And He said to them, "Cast the net on the right-hand side of the boat and you will find [a catch]." So they cast, and then they were not able to haul it in because of the great number of fish.
  • Echonan 6:10 NASB
    But they were unable to cope with the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.
  • Echonan 15:10 NASB
    "Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
  • Echonan 19:16 NASB
    And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaped on them and subdued all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
  • Echonan 19:20 NASB
    So the word of the Lord was growing mightily and prevailing.
  • Echonan 25:7 NASB
    After Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him which they could not prove,
  • Echonan 27:16 NASB
    Running under the shelter of a small island called Clauda, we were scarcely able to get the [ship's] boat under control.
  • Galatanan 5:6 NASB
    For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.