2001 Translation

ADYNATON, adynaton

Sounds Like: ah-DY-nah-ton

Translations: impossible, an impossible thing, impotent, weak, powerless

From the root: ἈΔΥΝΑΤΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes something that cannot be done or achieved, or someone who lacks strength or power. It is often used impersonally to mean 'it is impossible'.

Inflection: Neuter, Singular, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G0001 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 6:3

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 27:2

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Philadelphians — 10:2

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 28:256, 33:293

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 11:198
• Book 5 — 1:109
• Book 9 — 4:73
• Book 10 — 10:196
• Book 11 — 4:86
• Book 13 — 16:423
• Book 19 — 2:162

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Three — 7:41
• Book Five — 2:11
• Book Seven — 4:32

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 12:1, 61:1
• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:8, 0:12
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 68:1, 84:4

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 9:1, 9:6

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 6:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Maccabees — 4:6, 14:10
• Job — 31:34, 36:15
• Wisdom — 16:15, 17:14

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 9 — 26:6

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 19:26
• Mark — 10:27
• Romans — 8:3
• Hebrews — 6:4, 6:18, 10:4, 11:6

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΔΥΝΑΤΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἈΔΥΝΑΤΟΙ — impossible, weak, powerless, unable, impotent
• ἈΔΥΝΑΤΟΣ — impossible, weak, impotent, a weak person, an impotent person
• ἈΔΥΝΑΤΟΥ — of impossible, of powerless, of weak, of impotent
• ἈΔΥΝΑΤΟΥΣ — impossible, unable, weak, powerless, the weak, the powerless
• ἈΔΥΝΑΤΩΣ — impossibly, powerlessly, weakly

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