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Words
κατισχύω G2729
- Home gloss
- overpower; empower (with a person made strong)
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- mighty / Mighty / strengthened
- Note
- To be strong against, overpower (Matt 16:18 "the gates of Hades shall not overpower it"; Luke 23:23); split by construction: with the one made strong as object, "empower" (Gen 49:24 "the one who empowered Israel")
- Rulings
- 2, 20
Occurrences (1)
- 49:24 and their bows were shattered with might,and the sinews of the arms of their hand were unloosedthrough the hand of the Potentate of Jacob;from there, the one who empowered Israel,from God of your father.