Adynateo means “be impossible” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H101 — aggan (“basin”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G101 ἀδυνατέω (adunateo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. adunateo (ad-oo-nat-eh'-o) v. 1. to be unable 2. (passively) to be impossible It has 15 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include impossible. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
adunateo (ad-oo-nat-eh'-o) v. 1. to be unable 2. (passively) to be impossible [from G102] KJV: be impossible Root(s): G102
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G101. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
be impossible
Usage: ἀδυνατέω, -ῶ (ἀδύνατος), [in LXX: Deu.17:8, Zec.8:6 (פּלא ni.), Job.42:2 (בּצר ni.), al. ;] __1. Abbott-Smith omits this number to be unable (cl., Philo; π., see MM, VGT, see word). __2. In LXX and NT (Kennedy, Sources, 124; Hatch, Essays, 4; Field, Notes, 46 f.), to be impossible: Mat.17:20, Luk.1:37. † (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render adunateo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G101 (ἀδυνατέω) appears 14 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
11 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Shall anything be impossible with the Lord? At this time I will return to thee seasonably, and Sarah shall have a son.
And if thy brother who is with thee become poor, and he fail in resources with thee, thou shalt help him as a stranger and a sojourner, and thy brother shall live with thee.
And if a matter shall be too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Not that thou wast unable to bring the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, Or to destroy them at once with cruel beasts, or with one rough word:
For he provided for it that it might not fall, Knowing that it was unable to help itself; For it is an image, and hath need of help.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G101.
Shall anything be impossible with the Lord? At this time I will return to thee seasonably, and Sarah shall have a son.
And if thy brother who is with thee become poor, and he fail in resources with thee, thou shalt help him as a stranger and a sojourner, and thy brother shall live with thee.
And if a matter shall be too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;
And Asa cried to the Lord his God, and said, O Lord, it is not impossible with thee to save by many or by few: strengthen us, O Lord our God; for we trust in thee, and in thy name have we come against this great multitude. O Lord our God, let not man prevail against thee.
And hast supported the failing with words, And hast imparted courage to feeble knees.
Having these things in thyself, I know that thou canst do all things; For nothing is impossible with thee.
I know that thou canst do all things, And nothing is impossible with thee.
Many a time have they warred against me from my youth: And yet they prevailed not against me.
Therefore many among them shall be weak, and fall, and be crushed; and they shall draw nigh, and men shall be taken securely.
O Belteshazzar, chief of the enchanters, of whom I know that the Holy Spirit of God is in thee, and no mystery is too hard for thee, hear the vision of my dream which I had, and tell me the interpretation of it.
Thus saith the Lord Almighty; If it shall be impossible in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, shall it also be impossible in my sight? saith the Lord Almighty.
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Not that thou wast unable to bring the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, Or to destroy them at once with cruel beasts, or with one rough word:
For he provided for it that it might not fall, Knowing that it was unable to help itself; For it is an image, and hath need of help.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G101, grouped by book.
Adynateo (Strong's G101) is a Greek word most simply glossed "be impossible". adunateo (ad-oo-nat-eh'-o) v. 1. to be unable 2. (passively) to be impossible
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's G101 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G101 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as impossible. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 11 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G101, with linked reader references where each row is available.
