Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
mighty
Usage: κραταιός, -ά, -όν (κράτος), (in cl. poët, form of κρατερός), [in LXX chiefly for חָזַק and cognates ;] strong, mighty: 1Pe.5:6.† (AS)
Krataios means “mighty” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2900 — tobiah (“Tobijah”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2900 κραταιός (krataios) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. krataios (krat-ai-os') adj. 1. powerful [from G2904] It has 65 linked Bible usages across 25 books. Visible English usage signals include mighty. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
krataios (krat-ai-os') adj. 1. powerful [from G2904] KJV: mighty Root(s): G2904
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mighty
Usage: κραταιός, -ά, -όν (κράτος), (in cl. poët, form of κρατερός), [in LXX chiefly for חָזַק and cognates ;] strong, mighty: 1Pe.5:6.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render krataios, 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, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. 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 G2900 (κραταιός) appears 64 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
56 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
But I know that Pharaoh king of Egypt will not let you go, save with a mighty hand;
And the Lord said to Moses, Now thou shalt see what I will do to Pharaoh; for he shall send them forth with a mighty hand, and with a high arm shall he cast them out of his land.
And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye came forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for with a strong hand the Lord brought you forth thence; and leaven shall not be eaten.
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
and commanded them that they should speak unto Iddo, and to his brethren, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests’ office in the house of the Lord.
So the priests and the Levites, who had received the silver and the gold and the vessels that were in Jerusalem, brought them into the temple of the Lord.
Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power, and much people, with Timothy their captain.
First 65 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2900.
But I know that Pharaoh king of Egypt will not let you go, save with a mighty hand;
And the Lord said to Moses, Now thou shalt see what I will do to Pharaoh; for he shall send them forth with a mighty hand, and with a high arm shall he cast them out of his land.
And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye came forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for with a strong hand the Lord brought you forth thence; and leaven shall not be eaten.
And it shall be to thee a sign upon thy hand and a memorial before thine eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord God brought thee out of Egypt.
And if thy son should ask thee hereafter, saying, What is this? then thou shalt say to him, With a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and immovable before thine eyes, for with a strong hand the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.
Lord God, thou hast begun to show to thy servant thy strength, and thy power, and thy mighty hand, and thy high arm: for what God is there in heaven or on the earth, who will do as thou hast done, and according to thy might?
if God has assayed to go and take to himself a nation out of the midst of another nation with trial, and with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great sights, according to all the things which the Lord our God did in Egypt in thy sight.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out thence with a mighty hand, and a high arm: therefore the Lord appointed thee to keep the Sabbath day and to sanctify it.
Then shalt thou say to thy son, We were slaves to Pharaoh in the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought us forth thence with a mighty hand, and with a high arm.
But because the Lord loved you, and as keeping the oath which he swore to your fathers, the Lord brought you out with a strong hand, and the Lord redeemed thee from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
the great temptations which thine eyes have seen, those signs and great wonders, the strong hand, and the high arm; how the Lord thy God brought thee forth: so the Lord your God will do to all the nations, whom thou fearest in their presence.
Thou shalt not be wounded before them, because the Lord thy God in the midst of thee is a great and powerful God.
And I prayed to God, and said, O Lord, King of gods, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, whom thou didst redeem, whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt with thy great power, and with thy strong hand, and with thy high arm.
And ye shall know this day; for I speak not to your children, who know not and have not seen the discipline of the Lord thy God, and his wonderful works, and his strong hand, and his high arm,
And the Lord brought us out of Egypt himself with his great strength, and his mighty hand, and his high arm, and with great visions, and with signs, and with wonders.
the great wonders, and the mighty hand which Moses displayed before all Israel.
and I gave to him Isaac, and to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir for him to inherit: and Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt, and became there a great and populous and mighty nation: and the Egyptians afflicted them.
Then went down the remnant to the strong, The people of the Lord went down for him among the mighty ones from me.
And the war was vehement against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, and any valiant man, then he took them to himself.
And he wrote in the letter, saying, Station Uriah in front of the severe part of the fight, and retreat from behind him, so shall he be wounded and die.
As for the Mighty One, his way is blameless: The word of the Lord is strong and tried in the fire: He is a protector to all that put their trust in him.
It is the Mighty One who strengthens me with might, And has prepared my way without fault.
And it came to pass afterward, that the son of the woman the mistress of the house was sick; and his sickness was very severe, until there was no breath left in him.
And Elijah went to appear before Ahab: and the famine was severe in Samaria.
And he said, Thou shalt go forth tomorrow, and shalt stand before the Lord in the mount; behold, the Lord will pass by. And, behold, a great and strong wind rending the mountains, and crushing the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
And every stranger who is not himself of thy people Israel, and who shall have come from a distant land because of thy great name, and thy mighty hand, and thy high arm; when they shall come and worship toward this place—
With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:
Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.
Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: Who has hardened himself against him and endured?
To whom dost thou attach thyself, or whom art thou going to assist? Is it not he that has much strength, and he who has a strong arm?
They attacked me also without mercy: Thou hast scourged me with a strong hand.
Who is this king of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle.
The rulers of the people are assembled with the God of Abraham: For God’s mighty ones of the earth have been greatly exalted.
For strangers have risen up against me, And mighty men have sought my life: They have not set God before them. Pause.
For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; Violent men have set upon me: Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.
I am become as it were a wonder to many; But thou art my strong helper.
O God, transgressors have risen up against me, And an assembly of violent men have sought my life; And have not set thee before them.
Who smote many nations, And slew mighty kings;
With a strong hand, and a high arm: For his mercy endures forever.
And slew mighty kings; For his mercy endures forever:
For the Lord is their redeemer; He is mighty, and will plead their cause with thee.
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm; For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as the grave, Her shafts are shafts of fire, even the flames thereof.
And I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, with wrath and great anger.
and thou didst bring out thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great sights;
And it shall be continually stronger than a rock: be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their faces, because it is a provoking house.
And the Spirit lifted me, and took me up, and I went in the impulse of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me.
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath:
I will bring you out from the nations, and will take you out of the lands wherein ye were dispersed, with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath.
Thou, O king, art a king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given a powerful and strong and honorable kingdom,
And his power shall be great, and he shall destroy wonderfully, and prosper, and practice, and shall destroy mighty men, and the holy people.
And now, O Lord our God, who broughtest thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and madest to thyself a name, as at this day; we have sinned, we have transgressed.
And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life:
His excellence covered the heavens, And the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness shall be as light; There were horns in his hands, And he caused a mighty love of his strength.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
and commanded them that they should speak unto Iddo, and to his brethren, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests’ office in the house of the Lord.
So the priests and the Levites, who had received the silver and the gold and the vessels that were in Jerusalem, brought them into the temple of the Lord.
Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power, and much people, with Timothy their captain.
But a sore trial shall come upon the mighty.
A faithful friend is a strong defense: And he that hath found such a one hath found a treasure.
Joshua the son of Nave was valiant in the wars, And was the successor of Moses in prophecies, Who according to his name was made great For the saving of the elect of God, And taking vengeance of the enemies that rose up against them, That he might set Israel in their inheritance.
He called upon the most high Lord, When the enemies pressed upon him on every side; And the great Lord heard him.
And now, O Lord God of Israel, that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and high arm, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and hast gotten thyself a name, as appeareth this day:
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Krataios (Strong's G2900) is a Greek word most simply glossed "mighty". krataios (krat-ai-os') adj. 1. powerful [from G2904]
This page currently indexes 65 linked usages for Strong's G2900 across 25 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2900 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 mighty. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 56 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2900, with linked reader references where each row is available.