Definition

to have (or exercise) force (literally or figuratively)

Etymology

from G2479 (ἰσχύς);

Where the KJV renders it

• be able
• avail
• can do(-not)
• could
• be good
• might
• prevail
• be of strength
• be whole
• + much work

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.