2480. ischuó
Strong's Concordance
ischuó: to be strong, have power
Original Word: ἰσχύω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: ischuó
Phonetic Spelling: (is-khoo'-o)
Definition: to be strong, have power
Usage: I have strength, am strong, am in full health and vigor, am able; meton: I prevail.
HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 2480 isxýō – properly, embodied strength that "gets into the fray" (action), i.e. engaging the resistance. For the believer, 2480 (isxýō) refers to the Lord strengthening them with combative, confrontive force to achieve all He gives faith for. That is, facing necessary resistance that brings what the Lord defines is success (His victory, cf. 1 Jn 5:4). Accordingly, faith (4102 /pístis) and 2480 (isxýō) are directly connected (Js 5:16). See 2479 (isxys).

Js 5:15,16 (Gk text): "15And the prayer characterized by faith (4102 /pístis) will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins with present effects, it will be forgiven him. 16Therefore, openly confess these sins to one another, and pray for the benefit of one another, for the purpose of being supernaturally healed. Very combative (engaging, overcoming, 2480 /isxýō) is the specific (urgent) request of a divinely-approved person who is energized (by God)."

[Here the believer seeks to make petitions (1162 /déēsis) in faith – i.e. which are in accord with God's inbirthings (the persuasion of His will).]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from ischus
Definition
to be strong, have power
NASB Translation
able (5), am...strong enough (1), been able (1), can (1), can do (1), could (8), force (1), good (1), healthy (2), means (1), overpowered (1), prevailing (1), strong enough (3), unable* (2).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2480: ἰσχύω

ἰσχύω; imperfect ἴσχυον; future ἰσχύσω; 1 aorist ἴσχυσα; (ἰσχύς); the Sept. for חָזַק, אָמֵץ, עָצַם, etc.; to be strong, i. e.:

1. to be strong in body, to be robust, to be in sound health: οἱ ἰσχύοντες, as a substantive, Matthew 9:12; Mark 2:17 (Sophocles Tr. 234; Xenophon, Cyril 6, 1, 24; joined with ὑγιαίνειν, id. mem. 2, 7, 7).

2. to have power (from Aeschylus down), i. e.

a. to have a power evinced in extraordinary deeds, i. e. to exert, wield, power: so of the gospel, Acts 19:20; Hebraistically, to have strength to overcome: οὐκ ἴσχυσαν (A. V. prevailed not i. e.) succumbed, were conquered (so יָכֹל לֹא, Genesis 32:26 (25)), Revelation 12:8; κατά τίνος, against one, i. e. to use one's strength against one, to treat him with violence, Acts 19:16.

b. equivalent to to be of force, avail (German gelten): Hebrews 9:17; τί, Galatians 5:6, and Rec. in Galatians 6:15.

c. to be serviceable: εἰς τί (A. V. good for), Matthew 5:13.

d. followed by an infinitive to be able, can: Matthew 8:28; Matthew 26:40; Mark 5:4; (Mark 9:18 (infinitive to be supplied)); Mark 14:37; Luke 6:48; Luke 8:43; (); ; John 21:6; Acts 6:10; Acts 15:10; Acts 25:7; Acts 27:16 (Plutarch, Pomp. 58). with the accusative, πάντα, Philippians 4:13; πολύ, James 5:16. (Compare: ἐνισχύω, ἐξισχύω, ἐπισχύω, κατισχύω.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
be able, prevail, be of strength

From ischus; to have (or exercise) force (literally or figuratively) -- be able, avail, can do(-not), could, be good, might, prevail, be of strength, be whole, + much work.

see GREEK ischus

Forms and Transliterations
ἐκτελέσαι ίσχυε ισχυει ισχύει ἰσχύει ισχυειν ισχύειν ἰσχύειν ισχυεν ίσχυεν ἴσχυεν ισχύετε ισχυκός ισχυκότες ισχυον ίσχυον ἴσχυον ισχύοντα ισχυοντες ισχύοντες ἰσχύοντες ισχύοντι ισχυοντος ισχύοντος ἰσχύοντος ισχύουσαν ίσχυσα ισχύσαι ισχυσαμεν ισχύσαμεν ἰσχύσαμεν ισχυσαν ίσχυσαν ἴσχυσαν ισχυσας ισχύσας ίσχυσας ἴσχυσας ισχυσατε ισχύσατε ἰσχύσατε ισχυσάτωσαν ίσχυσε ισχύσει ισχύσεις ισχυσεν ίσχυσεν ἴσχυσεν ισχύση ισχύσητε ισχυσουσιν ισχύσουσιν ἰσχύσουσιν ισχυω ισχύω ἰσχύω ισχύων ektelesai ischuei ischuein ischuen ischuo ischuō ischuon ischuontes ischuontos ischusamen ischusan ischusas ischusate ischusen ischusousin ischyei ischýei ischyein ischýein ischyen íschyen ischyo ischyō ischýo ischýō ischyon íschyon ischyontes ischýontes ischyontos ischýontos ischysamen ischýsamen ischysan íschysan ischysas íschysas ischysate ischýsate ischysen íschysen ischysousin ischýsousin
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Englishman's Concordance
Matthew 5:13 V-PIA-3S
GRK: εἰς οὐδὲν ἰσχύει ἔτι εἰ
NAS: longer good for anything,
KJV: it is thenceforth good for
INT: for nothing it is potent any longer if

Matthew 8:28 V-PNA
GRK: ὥστε μὴ ἰσχύειν τινὰ παρελθεῖν
NAS: that no one could pass by that way.
KJV: no man might pass by
INT: so that not was able any one to pass

Matthew 9:12 V-PPA-NMP
GRK: ἔχουσιν οἱ ἰσχύοντες ἰατροῦ ἀλλ'
NAS: [It is] not those who are healthy who need
KJV: unto them, They that be whole need not
INT: have they who are strong of a physician but

Matthew 26:40 V-AIA-2P
GRK: Οὕτως οὐκ ἰσχύσατε μίαν ὥραν
NAS: So, you [men] could not keep watch
KJV: unto Peter, What, could ye not watch
INT: Thus not were you able one hour

Mark 2:17 V-PPA-NMP
GRK: ἔχουσιν οἱ ἰσχύοντες ἰατροῦ ἀλλ'
NAS: to them, [It is] not those who are healthy who need
KJV: unto them, They that are whole have
INT: have they who are strong of a physician but

Mark 5:4 V-IIA-3S
GRK: καὶ οὐδεὶς ἴσχυεν αὐτὸν δαμάσαι
NAS: and no one was strong enough to subdue
KJV: neither could any [man] tame
INT: and no one was able him to subdue

Mark 9:18 V-AIA-3P
GRK: καὶ οὐκ ἴσχυσαν
NAS: to cast it out, and they could not [do it].
KJV: out; and they could not.
INT: and not they had power

Mark 14:37 V-AIA-2S
GRK: καθεύδεις οὐκ ἴσχυσας μίαν ὥραν
NAS: are you asleep? Could you not keep watch
KJV: sleepest thou? couldest not
INT: sleep you not were you able one hour

Luke 6:48 V-AIA-3S
GRK: καὶ οὐκ ἴσχυσεν σαλεῦσαι αὐτὴν
NAS: that house and could not shake
KJV: house, and could not shake
INT: and not could shake it

Luke 8:43 V-AIA-3S
GRK: βίον οὐκ ἴσχυσεν ἀπ' οὐδενὸς
NAS: years, and could not be healed
KJV: physicians, neither could be healed of
INT: living neither could by no one

Luke 13:24 V-FIA-3P
GRK: καὶ οὐκ ἰσχύσουσιν
NAS: to enter and will not be able.
KJV: shall not be able.
INT: and not will be able

Luke 14:6 V-AIA-3P
GRK: καὶ οὐκ ἴσχυσαν ἀνταποκριθῆναι πρὸς
NAS: And they could make no
KJV: And they could not answer
INT: And not they were able to reply as to

Luke 14:29 V-PPA-GMS
GRK: καὶ μὴ ἰσχύοντος ἐκτελέσαι πάντες
NAS: a foundation and is not able to finish,
KJV: is not able to finish [it], all
INT: and not being able to finish all

Luke 14:30 V-AIA-3S
GRK: καὶ οὐκ ἴσχυσεν ἐκτελέσαι
NAS: to build and was not able to finish.'
KJV: was not able to finish.
INT: and not was able to finish

Luke 16:3 V-PIA-1S
GRK: σκάπτειν οὐκ ἰσχύω ἐπαιτεῖν αἰσχύνομαι
NAS: away from me? I am not strong enough to dig;
INT: To dig not I am able to beg I am ashamed

Luke 20:26 V-AIA-3P
GRK: καὶ οὐκ ἴσχυσαν ἐπιλαβέσθαι αὐτοῦ
KJV: And they could not take hold
INT: And not they were able to catch him in his

John 21:6 V-IIA-3P
GRK: αὐτὸ ἑλκύσαι ἴσχυον ἀπὸ τοῦ
NAS: and then they were not able to haul
KJV: they were not able to draw it
INT: it to haul in were they able from the

Acts 6:10 V-IIA-3P
GRK: καὶ οὐκ ἴσχυον ἀντιστῆναι τῇ
KJV: not able to resist
INT: And not they were able to resist the

Acts 15:10 V-AIA-1P
GRK: οὔτε ἡμεῖς ἰσχύσαμεν βαστάσαι
NAS: nor we have been able to bear?
KJV: nor we were able to bear?
INT: nor we were able to bear

Acts 19:16 V-AIA-3S
GRK: κατακυριεύσας ἀμφοτέρων ἴσχυσεν κατ' αὐτῶν
NAS: all of them and overpowered them, so
KJV: them, and prevailed against
INT: having overpowered them all prevailed against them

Acts 19:20 V-IIA-3S
GRK: ηὔξανεν καὶ ἴσχυεν
NAS: was growing mightily and prevailing.
KJV: of God and prevailed.
INT: increased and prevailed

Acts 25:7 V-IIA-3P
GRK: ἃ οὐκ ἴσχυον ἀποδεῖξαι
NAS: him which they could not prove,
KJV: Paul, which they could not prove.
INT: which not they were able to prove

Acts 27:16 V-AIA-1P
GRK: καλούμενον Καῦδα ἰσχύσαμεν μόλις περικρατεῖς
NAS: we were scarcely able to get
KJV: we had much work to come by the boat:
INT: called Cauda we were able with difficulty control

Galatians 5:6 V-PIA-3S
GRK: περιτομή τι ἰσχύει οὔτε ἀκροβυστία
NAS: uncircumcision means anything,
KJV: circumcision availeth any thing,
INT: circumcision any is of force nor uncircumcision

Philippians 4:13 V-PIA-1S
GRK: πάντα ἰσχύω ἐν τῷ
NAS: I can do all things through
KJV: I can do all things through
INT: All things I am strong for in the one

Strong's Greek 2480
28 Occurrences


ἰσχύει — 4 Occ.
ἰσχύειν — 1 Occ.
ἴσχυεν — 2 Occ.
ἰσχύω — 2 Occ.
ἴσχυον — 3 Occ.
ἰσχύοντες — 2 Occ.
ἰσχύοντος — 1 Occ.
ἰσχύσαμεν — 2 Occ.
ἴσχυσαν — 3 Occ.
ἴσχυσας — 1 Occ.
ἰσχύσατε — 1 Occ.
ἴσχυσεν — 5 Occ.
ἰσχύσουσιν — 1 Occ.

















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