Powerless
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(a.) Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.
Greek
193. akrates -- powerless, impotent
... powerless, impotent. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: akrates Phonetic
Spelling: (ak-rat'-ace) Short Definition: lacking self-control, inclined to ...
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102. adunatos -- unable, powerless
... unable, powerless. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: adunatos Phonetic
Spelling: (ad-oo'-nat-os) Short Definition: incapable, impossible Definition: of ...
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2673. katargeo -- to render inoperative, abolish
... away (4), fades away (1), fading (1), fading away (1), nullified (1), nullify (4),
passing away (1), released (2), removed (1), render powerless (1), severed (1 ...
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3498. nekros -- dead
... literally, "what lacks life"; dead; (figuratively) not able to respond to impulses,
or perform functions ("unable, ineffective, dead, powerless," , 1, 74.28 ...
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Strong's Hebrew
369. ayin -- nothing, nought
... nor is there one (1), nor was there (2), nor have (1), nor* (1), nothing (19), nothing*
(10), one (3), one should never (1), or (1), powerless* (1), senseless ...
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3581b. koach -- strength, power
... NASB Word Usage ability (3), able (1), able* (2), force (1), fruit (1), might (4),
mightily (1), mighty (1), power (40), powerful (1), powerless* (1), strength ...
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Library

A Powerless Christianity.
... The Pressing Emergency A Powerless Christianity. Then ... felt. These peoples may
turn away from a Christianity that seems powerless to them. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks with world winners/a powerless christianity.htm

Hear, O Freedom, the Dispute of Two Servants: How they are ...
... Hymn LIV. Hear, O Freedom, the dispute of two servants: how they are convicted
by each other, that they are powerless. 1. Hear, O ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn liv hear o freedom.htm

The Necessity of the Spirit's Work
... When the body is dead it is powerless; it is unable to do any thing for itself;
and when the soul of man is dead, in a spiritual sense, it must be, if there is ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/the necessity of the spirits.htm

Commandment Eleventh. The Spirit and Prophets to be Tried by their ...
... But the spirit which is asked and speaks according to the desires of men is earthly,
[220] light, and powerless, and it is altogether silent if it is not ...
/.../the pastor books first second third/commandment eleventh the spirit and.htm

Letter Lxix. To Oceanus.
... Christ to save all men is proved; or they remain undelivered and as it were still
under the charge of misdoing, in which case Christ is proved to be powerless. ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter lxix to oceanus.htm

"Rabbi," Says Nicodemus to Christ, "We Know that Thou Art a ...
... this planting and watering, which was the highest work that an inspired apostle
could do, was yet in itself to be considered as a lifeless, powerless thing, he ...
/.../address 70 0 0 rabbi says nicodemus.htm

Although the Jews, Then, Pride Themselves on Circumcision, they ...
... of the hostility of some angel towards the Jewish nation, who had the power to injure
such of them as were not circumcised, but was powerless against those who ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xlviii although the jews.htm

The Sinner's Need of Christ
... indeed can be." Job 14:4; Romans 8:7. Education, culture, the exercise of the will,
human effort, all have their proper sphere, but here they are powerless. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/steps to christ/chapter 2 the sinners need.htm

No House of any Pretension to be Called a Palace is in the Least ...
... to do unkind things; but it is difficult to undertand how they should be able to
do them, for you would fancy all wicked creatures would be powerless on such ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 28 no house of.htm

Prayer and Missions
... Money is important, but money without prayer is powerless in the face of the darkness,
the wretchedness and the sin in unchristianised lands. ...
/.../bounds/the essentials of prayer/xiii prayer and missions.htm

Thesaurus
Powerless (19 Occurrences)
...Powerless (19 Occurrences). ... Romans 8:3 For what was impossible to the Law--powerless
as it was because it acted through frail humanity--God effected. ...
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Impossible (31 Occurrences)
... im-pos'-ib'-l (verb adunateo; adjective adunatos): "To be impossible" is the
translation of adunateo, "to be powerless," "impotent" (Matthew 17:20 Luke 1:37 ...
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Blighted (6 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 19:26 And their inhabitants were powerless, They were dismayed and put to
shame; They were as the growing grass, and as the green herb, As the grass on ...
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Powers (43 Occurrences)

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Nature (80 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Romans 8:3 For what was impossible to the Law--powerless as it
was because it acted through frail humanity--God effected. ...
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Humanity (3 Occurrences)
... Humanity (3 Occurrences). Romans 8:3 For what was impossible to the Law--powerless
as it was because it acted through frail humanity--God effected. ...
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Jotham (26 Occurrences)
... Recognizing, however, that he is powerless to assert his claim, Jotham delivers
from the summit of Gerizim his famous fable (Judges 9:7-15), applies it to the ...
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Lifeless (10 Occurrences)
... Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living
beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as ...
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Withered (46 Occurrences)
... 10 Mark 3:1 Luke 6:6) "withered hand" was probably our modern "infantile paralysis,"
which may leave one or more limbs shrunken and powerless without detriment ...
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Inert (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (a.) Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances
when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired ...
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Resources
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Powerless (19 Occurrences)

Acts 5:39
But if it is really from God, you will be powerless to put them down--lest perhaps you find yourselves to be actually fighting against God."
(WEY)

Romans 8:3
For what was impossible to the Law--powerless as it was because it acted through frail humanity--God effected. Sending His own Son in a body like that of sinful human nature and as a sacrifice for sin, He pronounced sentence upon sin in human nature;
(WEY NIV)

2 Corinthians 13:9
and it is a joy to us when we are powerless, but you are strong. This we also pray for--the perfecting of your characters.
(WEY)

Hebrews 2:14
Since then the children referred to are all alike sharers in perishable human nature, He Himself also, in the same way, took on Him a share of it, in order that through death He might render powerless him who had authority over death, that is, the Devil,
(WEY NAS)

Deuteronomy 28:32
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day; and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.
(See NIV)

2 Kings 19:26
And their inhabitants were powerless, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were as the growing grass, and as the green herb, As the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up.
(DBY)

2 Chronicles 14:11
And Asa calleth unto Jehovah his God, and saith, 'Jehovah! it is nothing with Thee to help, between the mighty and those who have no power; help us, O Jehovah, our God, for on Thee we have leant, and in Thy name we have come against this multitude; O Jehovah, our God thou 'art'; let him not prevail with Thee -- mortal man!
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 20:12
O our God, dost Thou not execute judgment upon them? for there is no power in us before this great multitude that hath come against us, and we know not what we do, but on Thee 'are' our eyes.'
(See NAS RSV)

Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already; neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.'
(See NIV)

Job 26:2
How hast thou helped the powerless; how saved the arm that is without strength!
(DBY YLT NIV)

Job 31:23
For calamity from ?God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.
(DBY)

Isaiah 14:10
All of them shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become powerless as we; art thou become like unto us!
(DBY)

Isaiah 37:27
And their inhabitants were powerless, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were as the grass of the field and the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up.
(DBY)

Jeremiah 14:9
Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don't leave us.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 48:45
They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon powerless; for a fire hath come forth from Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and hath consumed the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the sons of tumult.
(DBY YLT)

Lamentations 1:6
And go out from the daughter of Zion doth all her honour, Her princes have been as harts -- They have not found pasture, And they go powerless before a pursuer.
(YLT)

Daniel 8:7
And I have seen it coming near the ram, and it becometh embittered at it, and smiteth the ram, and breaketh its two horns, and there hath been no power in the ram to stand before it, and it casteth it to the earth, and trampleth it down, and there hath been no deliverer to the ram out of its power.
(See NIV)

Daniel 11:15
And the king of the north cometh in, and poureth out a mount, and hath captured fenced cities; and the arms of the south do not stand, nor the people of his choice, yea, there is no power to stand.
(See NIV)

Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is powerless, and justice doth never go forth; for the wicked encompasseth the righteous; therefore judgment goeth forth perverted.
(DBY)

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