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ἀδύνατος

MainId: 000102000000000

Version: 0

HasAramaic: False

InLXX: True

AlphaPos: α

StrongCodes: G0102

Notes: {'Caller': 1, 'LanguageCode': 'en', 'LastEdited': '', 'LastEditedBy': '', 'References': [], 'Content': 'This statement in {S:05800601800016} may provide certain philosophical problems in view of the doctrine of the absoluteness of God, but no doubt the writer of Hebrews makes this statement in view of the presumed nature of God himself.'}

BaseForms:

1. BaseFormID: 000102001000000

   PartsOfSpeech: adjc.

   Inflections:

   1. Lemma: ἀδύνατος

      BaseFormIndex: 1

      Realizations: -ον

   Constructs: {'Lemma': 'ἀδύνατος', 'BaseFormIndex': 1, 'WordMeaningSets': [{'Word': 'ἀ-', 'Meanings': []}, {'Word': 'δύναμαι', 'Meanings': []}]}

   LEXMeanings:

   1. LEXID: 000102001001000

      LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y

      LEXEntryCode: 74.22

      LEXIndent: 0

      LEXDomains: Able, Capable

      LEXSenses:

      1. LanguageCode: en

         LastEdited: 2021-03-23 09:57:06

         DefinitionShort: pertaining to not being able to do or experience something

         Glosses: ['incapable', 'not being able']

         Comments: In {S:04501500100018} οἱ δυνατοί refers to capability with respect to faith and τῶν ἀδυνάτων refers, conversely, to those who are incapable with respect to faith. In some languages, therefore, it may be possible to use a similar biblical phrase, weak in the faith.|In many languages the appropriate equivalent of {S:04401400800008} would be but in Lystra there was a man who was crippled.

      LEXReferences: ACTs 14:8, ROM 15:1

   2. LEXID: 000102001002000

      LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y

      LEXEntryCode: 71.3

      LEXIndent: 0

      LEXDomains: Mode

      LEXSubDomains: Possible, Impossible

      LEXSenses:

      1. LanguageCode: en

         LastEdited: 2021-03-23 09:57:06

         DefinitionShort: pertaining to being impossible, presumably because of a lack of power to alter or control circumstances

         Glosses: impossible

         Comments: In {S:05800600400002} the use of ἀδύνατον seems to be an instance of hyperbole in view of the warnings against apostasy (see {S:05800501100000-05800601200000}). Therefore, one may translate ἀδύνατον in {S:05800600400002} as ‘it is extremely difficult to.’ TEV introduces a rhetorical question to express strong doubt, “for how can those who abandon their faith be brought back to repent again?”

      LEXReferences: MAT 19:26, MARK 10:27, LUKE 18:27, ROM 8:3, HEB 6:4, HEB 6:18, HEB 10:4, HEB 11:6