Original Word: δυνάστης
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: dunastés
Pronunciation: doo-nas-tace'
Phonetic Spelling: (doo-nas'-tace)
KJV: of great authority, mighty, potentate
NASB: court official, rulers, Sovereign
Word Origin: [from G1410 (δύναμαι - can)]

1. a ruler or officer

ruler, officer, potentate

From dunamai; a ruler or officer -- of great authority, mighty, potentate.

see GREEK dunamai

Cognate: 1413 dynástēs – a potentate (someone mighty in power). See 1411 (dynamis).

Word Origin
from dunamai
Definition
a ruler, a potentate
NASB Translation
court official (1), rulers (1), Sovereign (1).

STRONGS NT 1413: δυνάστης

δυνάστης, δυνάστου, ὁ (δύναμαι); from (Sophocles and) Herodotus on; powerful;

1. a prince, potentate: Luke 1:52; used of God (Sir. 46:5; 2 Macc. 15:3, 23, etc.; of Zeus, Sophocles Ant. 608), 1 Timothy 6:15.

2. a courtier, high officer, royal minister: Acts 8:27 (A. V. (a eunuch) of great authority; but see Meyer at the passage) (δυνάσται Φαραώ, Genesis 50:4).

δυνάσται δυνάσταις δυναστας δυνάστας δυνάστη δυνάστην δυναστης δυνάστης δυνάστου δυναστών dunastas dunastes dunastēs dynastas dynástas dynastes dynastēs dynástes dynástēsInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts