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Lexicon :: Strong's G1849 - exousia

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ἐξουσία
Transliteration
exousia (Key)
Pronunciation
ex-oo-see'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From ἔξεστι (G1832) (in the sense of ability)
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TDNT Reference: 2:562,238

Strong’s Definitions

ἐξουσία exousía, ex-oo-see'-ah; from G1832 (in the sense of ability); privilege, i.e. (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence:—authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power, right, strength.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 103x

The KJV translates Strong's G1849 in the following manner: power (69x), authority (29x), right (2x), liberty (1x), jurisdiction (1x), strength (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 103x
The KJV translates Strong's G1849 in the following manner: power (69x), authority (29x), right (2x), liberty (1x), jurisdiction (1x), strength (1x).
  1. power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases

    1. leave or permission

  2. physical and mental power

    1. the ability or strength with which one is endued, which he either possesses or exercises

  3. the power of authority (influence) and of right (privilege)

  4. the power of rule or government (the power of him whose will and commands must be submitted to by others and obeyed)

    1. universally

      1. authority over mankind

    2. specifically

      1. the power of judicial decisions

      2. of authority to manage domestic affairs

    3. metonymically

      1. a thing subject to authority or rule

        1. jurisdiction

      2. one who possesses authority

        1. a ruler, a human magistrate

        2. the leading and more powerful among created beings superior to man, spiritual potentates

    4. a sign of the husband's authority over his wife

      1. the veil with which propriety required a women to cover herself

    5. the sign of regal authority, a crown

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐξουσία exousía, ex-oo-see'-ah; from G1832 (in the sense of ability); privilege, i.e. (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence:—authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power, right, strength.
STRONGS G1849:
ἐξουσία, ἐξουσίας, (from ἔξεστι, ἐξόν, which see), from Euripides, Xenophon, Plato down; the Sept. for מֶמְשָׁלָה and Chaldean שָׁלְטָן; power.
1. power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases; leave or permission: 1 Corinthians 9:12, 18; ἔχειν ἐξουσίαν, 2 Thessalonians 3:9; with an infinitive added indicating the thing to be done, John 10:18; 1 Corinthians 9:4; Hebrews 13:10 (WH brackets ἐξουσία); followed by an infinitive with τοῦ, 1 Corinthians 9:6 (L T Tr WH omit τοῦ); with a genitive of the thing or the person with regard to which one has the power to decide: Romans 9:21 (where an explanatory infinitive is added (Buttmann, 260 (224))); 1 Corinthians 9:12; ἐπί τό ξύλον τῆς ζωῆς, permission to use the tree of life, Revelation 22:14 (see ἐπί, C. I. 2 e.); ἐξουσίαν ἔχειν περί τοῦ ἰδίου θελήματος (opposed to ἀνάγκην ἔχειν (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 3 N. 5)), 1 Corinthians 7:37; ἐν τῇ ἰδίᾳ ἐξουσία (appointed, see τίθημι, 1 a. sub at the end) according to his own choice, Acts 1:7; ἐν τῇ σῇ ἐξουσία ὑπῆρχεν, i. e. at thy free disposal, Acts 5:4; used of liberty under the gospel, as opposed to the yoke of the Mosaic law, 1 Corinthians 8:9.
2. physical and mental power; the ability or strength with which one is endued, which he either possesses or exercises: Matthew 9:8; Acts 8:19; Revelation 9:3, 19; Revelation 13:2, 4; Revelation 18:1; followed by an infinitive of the thing to be done, Mark 3:15; Luke 12:5; John 1:12; Revelation 9:10; Revelation 11:6; Revelation 13:5; followed by τοῦ with the infinitive Luke 10:19; αὕτη ἐστιν ἐξουσία τοῦ σκότους, this is the power that darkness exerts, Luke 22:53; ποιεῖν ἐξουσίαν to exert power, give exhibitions of power, Revelation 13:12; ἐν ἐξουσία εἶναι, to be possessed of power and influence, Luke 4:32; also ἐξουσίαν ἔχειν (both expressions refer to the ability and weight which Jesus exhibited in his teaching) Matthew 7:29; (Mark 1:22); κατ' ἐξουσίαν powerfully, Mark 1:27; also ἐν ἐξουσία, Luke 4:36.
3. the power of authority (influence) and of right: Matthew 21:23; Mark 11:28; Luke 20:2; spoken of the authority of an apostle, 2 Corinthians 10:8; 2 Corinthians 13:10; of the divine authority granted to Jesus as Messiah, with the infinitive of the thing to be done, Matthew 9:6; Mark 2:10; Luke 5:24; John 5:27; ἐν ποίᾳ ἐξουσία; clothed in what authority (i. e. thine own or God's?), Matthew 21:23, 24, 27; Mark 11:28, 29, 33; Luke 20:2, 8; delegated authority (German Vollmacht, authorization): παρά τίνος, with the genitive of the person by whom the authority is given, or received, Acts 9:14; Acts 26:10, 12 (R G).
4. the power of rule or government (the power of him whose will and commands must be submitted to by others and obeyed (generally translated authority));
a. universally: Matthew 28:18; Jude 1:25; Revelation 12:10; Revelation 17:13; λαμβάνειν, ἐξουσίαν ὡς βασιλεύς, Revelation 17:12; εἰμί ὑπό ἐξουσίαν, I am under authority, Matthew 8:9; with τασσόμενος added, (Matthew 8:9 L WH brackets); Luke 7:8; ἐξουσία τίνος, the genitive of the object, authority (to be exercised) over, as τῶν πνευμάτων τῶν ἀκαθάρτων, Mark 6:7; with ὥστε ἐκβάλλειν αὐτά added, Matthew 10:1; ἐξουσίαν πάσης σαρκός, authority over all mankind, John 17:2 (πάσης σαρκός κυρειαν, Bel and the Dragon, verse 5); (the genitive of the subject, τοῦ Σατανᾶ, Acts 26:18); ἐπί τινα, power over one, so as to be able to subdue, drive out, destroy, Revelation 6:8; ἐπί τά δαιμόνια, Luke 9:1; or to hold submissive to one's will, Revelation 13:7; ἐπί τάς πληγάς, the power to inflict plagues and to put an end to them, Revelation 16:9; ἐπί τῶν ἐθνῶν, over the heathen nations, Revelation 2:26; ἐπί τίνος, to destroy one, Revelation 20:6; ἔχειν ἐξουσίαν ἐπί τοῦ πυρός, to preside, have control, over fire, to hold it subject to his will, Revelation 14:18; ἐπί τῶν ὑδάτων, Revelation 11:6; ἐπάνω τίνος ἐξουσίαν ἔχειν, to be ruler over a thing, Luke 19:17.
b. specifically,
α. of the power of judicial decision; ἐξουσίαν ἔχειν with an infinitive of the thing decided: σταυρῶσαι and ἀπολῦσαι τινα, John 19:10; followed by κατά τίνος, the power of deciding against one, John 19:11; παραδοῦναι τινα... τῇ ἐξουσία τοῦ ἡγεμόνος, Luke 20:20.
β. of authority to manage domestic affairs: Mark 13:34.
c. metonymically,
α. a thing subject to authority or rule: Luke 4:6; jurisdiction: ἐκ τῆς ἐξουσίας ἡδωρου ἐστιν, Luke 23:7 (1 Macc. 6:11 (cf. Psalm 113:2 (Ps. 114:2); Isaiah 39:2)).
β. one who possesses authority; (cf. the Latin use of honestates, dignitates, auctoritates (so the English authorities, dignities, etc.) in reference to persons);
αα. a ruler, human magistrate (Dionysius Halicarnassus 8, 44; 11, 32): Romans 13:1-3; plural: Luke 12:11; Romans 13:1; Titus 3:1.
ββ. the leading and more powerful among created beings superior to man, spiritual potentates; used in the plural of a certain class of angels (see ἀρχή, δύναμις, θρόνος, κυριότης): Colossians 1:16; 1 Peter 3:22 (cf. Fritzsche on Romans, vol. ii., p. 226f; (Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited)); with ἐν τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις added, Ephesians 3:10; πᾶσα ἐξουσία, 1 Corinthians 15:24; Ephesians 1:21; Colossians 2:10; used also of demons: in the plural, Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 2:15; collectively (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 469), ἐξουσία τοῦ ἀέρος (see ἀήρ), Ephesians 2:2; τοῦ σκότους, Colossians 1:13 (others refer this to 4 a. (or c. α.) above (cf. Luke 22:53 in 2), and regard σκότος as personified; see σκότος, b.).
d. a sign of the husband's authority over his wife, i. e. the veil with which propriety required a woman to cover herself, 1 Corinthians 11:10 (as βασιλεία is used by Diodorus 1, 47 for the sign of regal power, i. e. a crown). (Synonym: see δύναμις, at the end. On the infinitive after ἐξουσία, and ἐξουσία ἔχειν cf. Buttmann, 260 (223f).)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
113:2; 114:2
Isaiah
39:2
Matthew
7:29; 8:9; 8:9; 9:6; 9:8; 10:1; 21:23; 21:23; 21:24; 21:27; 28:18
Mark
1:22; 1:27; 2:10; 3:15; 6:7; 11:28; 11:28; 11:29; 11:33; 13:34
Luke
4:6; 4:32; 4:36; 5:24; 7:8; 9:1; 10:19; 12:5; 12:11; 19:17; 20:2; 20:2; 20:8; 20:20; 22:53; 22:53; 23:7
John
1:12; 5:27; 10:18; 17:2; 19:10; 19:11
Acts
1:7; 5:4; 8:19; 9:14; 26:10; 26:12; 26:18
Romans
9:21; 13:1; 13:1; 13:2; 13:3
1 Corinthians
7:37; 8:9; 9:4; 9:6; 9:12; 9:12; 9:18; 11:10; 15:24
2 Corinthians
10:8; 13:10
Ephesians
1:21; 2:2; 3:10; 6:12
Colossians
1:13; 1:16; 2:10; 2:15
2 Thessalonians
3:9
Titus
3:1
Hebrews
13:10
1 Peter
3:22
Jude
1:25
Revelation
2:26; 6:8; 9:3; 9:10; 9:19; 11:6; 11:6; 12:10; 13:2; 13:4; 13:5; 13:7; 13:12; 14:18; 16:9; 17:12; 17:13; 18:1; 20:6; 22:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1849 matches the Greek ἐξουσία (exousia),
which occurs 103 times in 93 verses in the TR Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Mat 7:29–Rom 13:3)

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:29 - For he taught them as one having authority, G1849 and not as the scribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:9 - For I am a man under authority, G1849 having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:6 - But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power G1849 on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:8 - But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power G1849 unto men.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:1 - And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power G1849 against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:23 - And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority G1849 doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority? G1849
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:24 - And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority G1849 I do these things.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:27 - And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority G1849 I do these things.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:18 - And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power G1849 is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:22 - And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, G1849 and not as the scribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:27 - And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority G1849 commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:10 - But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power G1849 on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:15 - And to have power G1849 to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:7 - And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over G1849 unclean spirits;
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 11:28 - And say unto him, By what authority G1849 doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority G1849 to do these things?
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 11:29 - And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority G1849 I do these things.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 11:33 - And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority G1849 I do these things.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:34 - For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority G1849 to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:6 - And the devil said unto him, All this power G1849 will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:32 - And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power. G1849
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:36 - And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority G1849 and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:24 - But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power G1849 upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:8 - For I also am a man set under authority, G1849 having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:1 - Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority G1849 over all devils, and to cure diseases.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:19 - Behold, I give unto you power G1849 to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:5 - But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power G1849 to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:11 - And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, G1849 take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:17 - And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority G1849 over ten cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:2 - And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority G1849 doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority? G1849
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:8 - And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority G1849 I do these things.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:20 - And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority G1849 of the governor.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:53 - When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power G1849 of darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:7 - And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, G1849 he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:12 - But as many as received him, to them gave he power G1849 to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:27 - And hath given him authority G1849 to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:18 - No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power G1849 to lay it down, and I have power G1849 to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:2 - As thou hast given him power G1849 over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:10 - Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power G1849 to crucify thee, and have power G1849 to release thee?
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:11 - Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power G1849 at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:7 - And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. G1849
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:4 - Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? G1849 why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:19 - Saying, Give me also this power, G1849 that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:14 - And here he hath authority G1849 from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:10 - Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority G1849 from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:12 - Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority G1849 and commission from the chief priests,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:18 - To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power G1849 of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:21 - Hath not the potter power G1849 over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:1 - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. G1849 For there is no power G1849 but of God: the powers G1849 that be are ordained of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:2 - Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, G1849 resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:3 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? G1849 do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

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