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Koine Greek wordlink #19234

SR GNT Mat 26:40 ἰσχύσατε (isⱪusate) ‘to Petros thus not you_all were_able one hour to watch’ Strongs=24800 Lemma=isχuō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=2nd number=plural
Year=33 AD Refers to Word #19221

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Only use of identical word form ἰσχύσατε (V-IAA2··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἰσχύσατε’ (V-IAA2··P) is always and only glossed as ‘you_all were_able’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘isχuō’ have 21 different glosses: ‘is prevailing’, ‘to_be was_able’, ‘was able’, ‘was prevailing’, ‘I am able’, ‘I am being_strong’, ‘it is being_effective’, ‘it prevailed’, ‘it was_able’, ‘they were were_able’, ‘they will_be able’, ‘they prevailed’, ‘they were_able’, ‘we were_able’, ‘you were_able’, ‘you_all were_able’, ‘being_able’, ‘being_strong’, ‘prevailed’, ‘was_able’, ‘were_able’.

Greek words (7) other than ἰσχύσατε (V-IAA2··P) with a gloss related to ‘were_able’

MARK 14:37 ἴσχυσας (isⱪusas) V-IAA2··S ‘Simōn you are sleeping not you were_able one hour to watch’ SR GNT Mark 14:37 word 14

OET-LV: 37 And he _is _coming and is _finding them sleeping, and he _is _saying to_ the _Petros: Simōn, you _are _sleeping? Not were_ you _able to _watch one hour? (MRK_14:37)

OET-RV: 37 Then he went back and found the others sleeping. He asked Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Couldn’t you stay awake even for a single hour? (MRK 14:37)

LUKE 14:6 ἴσχυσαν (isⱪusan) V-IAA3··P ‘and not they were_able to_be answered_back to these things’ SR GNT Luke 14:6 word 5

OET-LV: 6 And they _were_ not _able to _be _answered _back to these things. (LUK_14:6)

OET-RV: 6 But they didn’t have any answer for that. (LUK 14:6)

LUKE 20:26 ἴσχυσαν (isⱪusan) V-IAA3··P ‘and not they were_able to catch of the one in a message’ SR GNT Luke 20:26 word 3

OET-LV: 26 And they _were_ not _able to _catch of _the one in_a_message before the people, and having _marvelled at the answer of _him, they _kept _silent. (LUK_20:26)

OET-RV: 26 So they weren’t able to catch him out by making a treasonable statement in front of the people—in fact they were stunned by his answer and didn’t ask anything else. (LUK 20:26)

ACTs 6:10 ἴσχυον (isⱪuon) V-IIA3··P ‘and not they were were_able to resist against the wisdom’ SR GNT Acts 6:10 word 4

OET-LV: 10 And they _were _were_ not _able to _resist against _the wisdom and the spirit, by _whom he _was _speaking. (ACT_6:10)

OET-RV: 10 but they weren’t able to refute the wisdom that he spoke with the help of the pure spirit. (ACT 6:10)

ACTs 15:10 ἰσχύσαμεν (isⱪusamen) V-IAA1··P ‘of us nor we were_able to bear’ SR GNT Acts 15:10 word 21

OET-LV: 10 Therefore now why are _you _all _testing the god, to _put _on a_yoke on the neck of _the apprentices/followers, that neither the fathers of _us nor we were _able to _bear? (ACT_15:10)

OET-RV: 10 So why are you all provoking God by putting a load on the shoulders of these believers that neither we, nor our ancestors, were ever able to bear? (ACT 15:10)

ACTs 25:7 ἴσχυον (isⱪuon) V-IIA3··P ‘bringing_against which not they were_able to demonstrate’ SR GNT Acts 25:7 word 22

OET-LV: 7 And of _him having _arrived, the Youdaiōns having _come _down from Hierousalaʸm stood _around him, bringing _against many and heavy charges, which they _were_ not _able to _demonstrate, (ACT_25:7)

OET-RV: 7 When he arrived, the Jews who’d come from Yerushalem stood facing Paul and presented many heavy charges which they weren’t able to prove. (ACT 25:7)

ACTs 27:16 ἰσχύσαμεν (isⱪusamen) V-IAA1··P ‘having run_under being called Klaudaʸ we were_able with_difficulty control to become’ SR GNT Acts 27:16 word 9

OET-LV: 16 And having _run _under a_certain island being _called Klaudaʸ, we _were _able with _difficulty to _become control of _the lifeboat, (ACT_27:16)

OET-RV: 16 As we passed a small island called Clauda, we got a brief break and were able to resecure the lifeboat (ACT 27:16)

Key: V=verb