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Strong's G2904 κράτος (kratos)

Kratos means “dominion” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2904 — tul (“carry away”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2904
Language Greek
Linked Usages 61
Books 25

Strong's G2904 Quick Answer

Strong's G2904 κράτος (kratos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kratos (krat'-os) n. 1. vigor ("great") {literally or figuratively} It has 61 linked Bible usages across 25 books. Visible English usage signals include dominion, power, might, strength, and word. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
kratos (krat'-os) n. 1. vigor ("great") {literally or figuratively}
Usage
61 linked usages
Books
25 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
dominion, power, might, strength, and word

Meaning and Definition

kratos (krat'-os) n. 1. vigor ("great") {literally or figuratively} [perhaps a primary word] KJV: dominion, might(-ily), power, strength

Original Word
κράτος
Transliteration
kratos
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2904. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

power

Usage: κράτος, -εος (-ους), τό [in LXX chiefly for עֹז, Job.12:16, Psa.90:11 al. ;] __1. strength, esp. as in Hom., of bodily strength. __2. power, might: Heb.2:14; τὸ κ. τῆς ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ, Eph.1:19 6:10 (Isa.40:26, Da TH Dan.4:27); τ. δόςης αὐτοῦ, Col.1:11; κατὰ κράτος, mightily, Act.19:20; a mighty deed, an act of power, Luk.1:51; in doxologies, 1Ti.6:16, 1Pe.4:11 5:11, Ju 25, Rev.1:6 5:13.† (AS)

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How Strong's G2904 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kratos, 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.

dominion 1 Peter 4:11 might Ephesians 6:10 power Ephesians 1:19 strength Luke 1:51 word Acts 19:20

How Strong's G2904 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha with 30 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2904 (κράτος) appears 49 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2904 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G2904 in the New Testament

12 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 1:51 KJV

He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Acts 19:20 KJV

So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.

Ephesians 1:19 KJV

And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

Strong's G2904 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

19 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 49:24 Septuagint / Brenton

But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, And the sinews of their arms were slackened By the hand of the mighty one of Jacob; Thence is he that strengthened Israel From the God of thy father;

Deuteronomy 8:17 Septuagint / Brenton

Lest thou shouldest say in thy heart, My strength, and the power of my hand have wrought for me this great wealth.

Judges 4:3 Septuagint / Brenton

And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, because he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed Israel twenty years.

Strong's G2904 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

30 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 2:12 Septuagint / Brenton

For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, whatsoever I have spoken, that will I do by my hand.

Judith 5:3 Septuagint / Brenton

and he said unto them, Tell me now, ye sons of Canaan, who this people is, that dwelleth in the hill country, and what are the cities that they inhabit, and what is the multitude of their army, and wherein is their power and strength, and what king is set over them, or captain of their army;

Judith 5:23 Septuagint / Brenton

For, say they, we will not be afraid of the face of the children of Israel: for, lo, it is a people that have no strength nor power for a strong battle.

Usage Excerpts

First 61 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2904.

Genesis 49:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, And the sinews of their arms were slackened By the hand of the mighty one of Jacob; Thence is he that strengthened Israel From the God of thy father;
Deuteronomy 8:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lest thou shouldest say in thy heart, My strength, and the power of my hand have wrought for me this great wealth.
Judges 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, because he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed Israel twenty years.
Ezra 8:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Nehemiah 4:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
Job 12:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
With him are strength and power: He has knowledge and understanding.
Job 21:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
One shall die in his perfect strength, And wholly at ease and prosperous;
Psalms 58:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will keep my strength, looking to thee; For thou, O God, art my helper.
Psalms 61:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and mercy is thine, O Lord; For thou wilt recompense every one according to his works.
Psalms 75:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There he broke the power of the bows, The shield, and the sword, and the battle. Pause.
Psalms 85:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Look thou upon me, and have mercy upon me: Give thy strength to thy servant, And save the son of thy handmaid.
Psalms 88:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou rulest the power of the sea; And thou calmest the tumult of its waves.
Psalms 89:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who knows the power of thy wrath?
Proverbs 34:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Isaiah 22:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I will put on him thy robe, and I will grant him thy crown with power, and I will give thy stewardship into his hands: and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to them that dwell in Judah.
Isaiah 40:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? even he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by means of his great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped thee.
Isaiah 41:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I am thy God, who holdeth thy right hand, who saith to thee,
Daniel 4:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
the king answered and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power, for the honor of my glory?
Daniel 11:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I in the first year of Cyrus stood to strengthen and confirm him.
Luke 1:51 New Testament, KJV
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Acts 19:20 New Testament, KJV
So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
Ephesians 1:19 New Testament, KJV
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Ephesians 6:10 New Testament, KJV
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Colossians 1:11 New Testament, KJV
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
1 Timothy 6:16 New Testament, KJV
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Hebrews 2:14 New Testament, KJV
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
1 Peter 4:11 New Testament, KJV
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 5:11 New Testament, KJV
To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Jude 1:25 New Testament, KJV
To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Revelation 1:6 New Testament, KJV
And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 5:13 New Testament, KJV
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Judith 2:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, whatsoever I have spoken, that will I do by my hand.
Judith 5:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and he said unto them, Tell me now, ye sons of Canaan, who this people is, that dwelleth in the hill country, and what are the cities that they inhabit, and what is the multitude of their army, and wherein is their power and strength, and what king is set over them, or captain of their army;
Judith 5:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For, say they, we will not be afraid of the face of the children of Israel: for, lo, it is a people that have no strength nor power for a strong battle.
Judith 6:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And who art thou, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim, that thou hast prophesied among us as today, and hast said, that we should not make war with the people of Israel, because their God will defend them? and who is God but Nebuchadnezzar?
Judith 6:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He will send his power, and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God shall not deliver them: but we his servants will destroy them as one man; for they are not able to sustain the power of our horses.
Judith 9:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth, and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.
Judith 9:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold their pride, and send thy wrath upon their heads: give into my hand, which am a widow, the power that I have conceived.
Judith 9:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For thy power standeth not in multitude, nor thy might in strong men: for thou art a God of the afflicted, thou art a helper of the oppressed, an upholder of the weak, a protector of the forlorn, a savior of them that are without hope.
Judith 9:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And make every nation and tribe to acknowledge that thou art the God of all power and might, and that there is none other that protecteth the people of Israel but thou.
Judith 11:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As Nebuchadnezzar king of all the earth liveth, and as his power liveth, who hath sent thee for the upholding of every living thing: for not only men shall serve him by thee, but also the beasts of the field, and the cattle, and the fowls of the air, shall live by thy power under Nebuchadnezzar and all his house.
Judith 11:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Likewise Holofernes said unto her, God hath done well to send thee before the people, that strength might be in our hands, and destruction upon them that lightly regard my lord.
Judith 13:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then said Judith afar off to the watchmen at the gate, Open, open now the gate: God, even our God, is with us, to show his power yet in Israel, and his strength against the enemy, as he hath even done this day.
2 Maccabees 3:34 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and seeing that thou hast been scourged from heaven, declare unto all men the mighty power of God. And when they had spoken these words, they appeared no more.
2 Maccabees 7:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
but abide a while, and behold his great power, how he will torment thee and thy seed.
2 Maccabees 9:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
yea, and that also he would become a Jew himself, and go through all the world that was inhabited, and declare the power of God.
2 Maccabees 11:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
not at all considering the power of God, but puffed up with his ten thousands of footmen, and his thousands of horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.
2 Maccabees 12:28 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But when Judas and his company had called upon Almighty God, who with his power breaketh the strength of his enemies, they won the city, and slew twenty and five thousand of them that were within.
3 Maccabees 1:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Yet even his own officers, when they saw this, joined the Jews in an appeal to Him who has all power, to aid in the present crisis, and not wink at such overweening lawlessness.
3 Maccabees 2:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou didst make known thy power when thou causedst the bold Pharaoh, the enslaver of thy people, to pass through the ordeal of many and diverse inflictions.
3 Maccabees 3:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now the king, elated with his prosperous fortune, and not regarding the superior power of God, but thinking to persevere in his present purpose, wrote the following letter to the prejudice of the Jews.
3 Maccabees 5:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But the Jews, having escaped the hour which had been fixed, praised their holy God, and again prayed him who is easily reconciled to display the power of his powerful hand to the overweening Gentiles.
3 Maccabees 6:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
When Sennacherib, the grievous king of the Assyrians, glorying in his countless hosts, had subdued the whole land with his spear, and was lifting himself against thy holy city, with boastings grievous to be endured, thou, O Lord, didst demolish him and didst show forth thy might to many nations.
4 Maccabees 2:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And should a man be parsimonious, he is ruled by the law acting through reasoning; so that he does not glean his harvest crops, nor vintage: and in reference to other points we may perceive that it is reasoning that conquers his passions.
4 Maccabees 6:34 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And it is but fair that we should allow, that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries.
Wisdom of Solomon 11:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou canst show thy great strength at all times when thou wilt; And who may withstand the power of thine arm?
Wisdom of Solomon 15:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy power: But we will not sin, knowing that we are counted thine.
Wisdom of Solomon 15:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For to know thee is perfect righteousness: Yea, to know thy power is the root of immortality.
Wisdom of Sirach 18:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Who shall number the strength of his majesty? And who shall also tell out his mercies?
Wisdom of Sirach 29:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
It shall fight for thee against thine enemies Better than a mighty shield and strong spear.
Wisdom of Sirach 47:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For he called upon the most high Lord; And he gave him strength in his right hand To slay that mighty warrior, And set up the horn of his people.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2904, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Ephesians 2 usages, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
1 Peter 2 usages, New Testament
Jude 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 2 usages, New Testament
Judith 12 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2904 FAQ

What does kratos (κράτος) mean?

Kratos (Strong's G2904) is a Greek word most simply glossed "dominion". kratos (krat'-os) n. 1. vigor ("great") {literally or figuratively}

How many times is kratos (κράτος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 61 linked usages for Strong's G2904 across 25 books.

Where can I study kratos (κράτος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2904 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate kratos (κράτος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as dominion, power, might, strength, and word. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2904 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 19 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 30 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2904, with linked reader references where each row is available.