noun · masculine
dunastos
Strong’sG1413
a ruler, potentate
stem dunast-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
δυνάστης, -ου, ὁ
(< δύναμαι), [in LXX for גִּבּוֹר, עָרִיץ, בַּיִת, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1413 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddoo-nas'-tace
a ruler or officer
Fromfrom G1410;
King Jamesof great authority, mighty, potentate.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
lord, master, ruler, of Zeus, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄνδρες δ. the chief men in a state, Refs 5th c.BC+; petty chief, princelet, Refs 5th c.BC+; λαμπροὶ δυνάσται, of the stars, Refs 4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | dunastos2×δυνάστης | dunastois |
| object accusative | dunaston | dunastoin1×δυνάστας |
| direct address vocative | dunastor | dunastoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | dunastou | dunastoiu |
| to, for dative | dunasto | dunastoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
dunasto is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
dunastos“sovereign”subjectnominative singular2×
Acts 8:27… poreuita, kai idou andros Aithiopos eunouchos dunastos Kandakau basilissau Aithiopoiu, hos ate epi …… he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury …
1 Timothy 6:15… idioi deikati tos makarios kai monos dunastos, tos basilevos toiu basilarōntoiu kai kurios …which the blessed and only Sovereign One— the King of kings and …
dunastoin“mighty”objectaccusative plural1×
Luke 1:52“mighty”kathairata dunastoin apo thronoiu kai hupsata tapeinoin,He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.