Bible word study

Dynamis (Strong’s G1411): Meaning in the Bible

Dynamis (δύναμις) is the Greek word numbered G1411 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as force (literally or figuratively); specially, miraculous power (usually by implication, a miracle itself). In the King James Bible it is translated ability, abundance, meaning, might(-ily, -y.

• Original wordδύναμις
• Transliterationdýnamis
• Pronunciationdoo'-nam-is
• Strong’s numberG1411
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G1410;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Dynamis appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Dynamis (G1411) stands behind 124 English renderings in 116 verses across 18 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Luke (15), 1 Corinthians (15), Matthew (14).

How the King James Bible renders Dynamis, by count

• power62 of 124 (50 percent)
• miracles8 of 124 (6 percent)
• strength7 of 124 (6 percent)
• works6 of 124 (5 percent)
• might4 of 124 (3 percent)
• the power4 of 124 (3 percent)

Three places to read Dynamis

• Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
• Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
• Galatians 3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Dynamis in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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