δύναμαι dýnamai

Meaning

to be able or possible

In the King James Version: be able, can (do, + -not), could, may, might, be possible, be of power

Derivation: of uncertain affinity;

Where it is used

• Luke 5:21 But the scribes and Pharisees began thinking to themselves, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
• Luke 5:34 Jesus replied, “Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them?
• Luke 6:39 Jesus also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?
• Luke 6:42 How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
• Luke 8:19 Then Jesus’ mother and brothers came to see Him, but they were unable to reach Him because of the crowd.
• Luke 9:40 I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.”
• Luke 11:7 And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Do not bother me. My door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’
• Luke 12:25 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
• Luke 12:26 So if you cannot do such a small thing, why do you worry about the rest?
• Luke 13:11 and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.
• Luke 14:20 Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, so I cannot come.’
• Luke 14:26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
• Luke 14:27 And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.
• Luke 14:33 In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
• Luke 16:2 So he called him in to ask, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.’
• Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
• Luke 16:26 And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us.’
• Luke 18:26 Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?”
• Luke 19:3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but could not see over the crowd because he was small in stature.
• Luke 20:36 In fact, they can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are sons of the resurrection, they are sons of God.
• Luke 21:15 For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
• John 1:46 “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip.
• John 3:2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”
• John 3:3 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
• John 3:4 “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”
• John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
• John 3:9 “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
• John 3:27 John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.
• John 5:19 So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
• John 5:30 I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
• John 5:44 How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
• John 6:44 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
• John 6:52 At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
• John 6:60 On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
• John 6:65 Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”
• John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
• John 7:34 You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
• John 7:36 What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
• John 8:21 Again He said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
• John 8:22 So the Jews began to ask, “Will He kill Himself, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”
• John 8:43 Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
• John 9:4 While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
• John 9:16 Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was division among them.
• John 9:33 If this man were not from God, He could do no such thing.”
• John 10:21 But others replied, “These are not the words of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
• John 10:29 My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
• John 10:35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—
• John 11:37 But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”
• John 12:39 For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says:
• John 13:33 Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
• John 13:36 “Lord, where are You going?” Simon Peter asked. Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later.”
• John 13:37 “Lord,” said Peter, “why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You.”
• John 14:5 “Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?”
• John 14:17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
• John 15:4 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
• John 15:5 I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
• John 16:12 I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.
• Acts 4:16 “What shall we do with these men?” they asked. “It is clear to everyone living in Jerusalem that a remarkable miracle has occurred through them, and we cannot deny it.
• Acts 4:20 For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
• Acts 5:39 But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”