[B-Greek] Re: B-Greek Digest, Vol 16, Issue 16

Harold R. Holmyard III hholmyard at ont.com
Fri Apr 16 06:52:26 EDT 2004


Dear Stephanie,

>Is there a way to do a search on the word "power" in the Bible?
>
>Two words, "exousia" and "dunamis" both infer power.  Exousia (John 1) talks
>about the "right" or "authority" to become children of God.  "Dunamis" is more
>of an explosive power, used in Acts 2. 
>
>Do any of you know any other Greek words used to infer either kind of power,
>specificially in the NT (but if it's in the OT that would be helpful as well).

HH: How many Greek words are translated as"power" depends on what 
translation of the Bible you are using. You are writing B-Greek, but 
of course many Hebrew and Aramaic words in the Old Testament are also 
translated as "power" in English. The best way to do these kinds of 
word studies is to buy a concordance that lists the English words 
along with the Greek and Hebrew words that they represent. I use a 
Young's Concordance. There are others.  They will list all the places 
that the Greek word is translated as power. My concordance, which is 
keyed to the King James Version, lists, besides EXOUSIA and DUNAMIS, 
also ARCH, ISCUS, and KRATOS.

					Yours,
					Harold Holmyard




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