Strong's #1849: exousia (pronounced ex-oo-see'-ah)
from 1832 (in the sense of ability); privilege, i.e. (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence:--authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power, right, strength.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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exousia
1) power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases
1a) leave or permission
2) physical and mental power
2a) the ability or strength with which one is endued, which he either possesses or exercises
3) the power of authority (influence) and of right (privilege)
4) the power of rule or government (the power of him whose will and commands must be submitted to by others and obeyed)
4a) universally
4a1) authority over mankind
4b) specifically
4b1) the power of judicial decisions
4b2) of authority to manage domestic affairs
4c) metonymically
4c1) a thing subject to authority or rule
4c1a) jurisdiction
4c2) one who possesses authority
4c2a) a ruler, a human magistrate
4c2b) the leading and more powerful among created beings superior to man, spiritual potentates
4d) a sign of the husband' s authority over his wife
4d1) the veil with which propriety required a women to cover herself
4e) the sign of regal authority, a crown
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from G1832 (in the sense of ability)
Citing in TDNT: 2:562, 238
Usage:
This word is used 104 times:
Acts 26:12: "I went to Damascus with authority and commission from"
Acts 26:18: "light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that"
Romans 9:21: "not the potter power over the clay, of the"
Romans 13:1: "soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power"
Romans 13:1: "For there is no power but of God:"
Romans 13:1: "of God: the powers that be are ordained"
Romans 13:2: "Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God:"
Romans 13:3: "not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have"
1 Corinthians 7:37: "necessity, but hath power over his own will, and"
1 Corinthians 8:9: "take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak."
1 Corinthians 9:4: "Have we not power to eat and to drink?"
1 Corinthians 9:5: "Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as"
1 Corinthians 9:6: "Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?"
1 Corinthians 9:12: "If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather?"
1 Corinthians 9:12: "we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest"
1 Corinthians 9:18: "that I abuse not my power in the gospel."
1 Corinthians 11:10: "ought the woman to have power on her head because"
1 Corinthians 15:24: "rule and all authority and power."
2 Corinthians 10:8: "somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord"
2 Corinthians 13:10: "I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord"
Ephesians 1:21: "all principality, and power, and might, and dominion,"
Ephesians 2:2: "according to the prince of the power of the air, the"
Ephesians 3:10: "unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by"
Ephesians 6:12: "but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers"
Colossians 1:13: "us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into"
Colossians 1:16: "or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him,"
Colossians 2:10: "of all principality and power:"
Colossians 2:15: "And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over"
2 Thessalonians 3:9: "because we have not power, but to make ourselves"
Titus 3:1: "Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready"
Hebrews 13:10: "whereof they have no right to eat which serve the"
1 Peter 3:22: "of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him."
Jude 1:25: "majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever."
Revelation 2:26: "the end, to him will I give power over the nations:"
Revelation 6:8: "with him. And power was given unto them over the"
Revelation 9:3: "and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the"
Revelation 9:3: "of the earth have power."
Revelation 9:10: "tails: and their power was to hurt men five months."
Revelation 9:19: "For their power is in their mouth, and"
Revelation 11:6: "These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not"
Revelation 11:6: "the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters"
Revelation 12:10: "God, and the power of his Christ: for the"
Revelation 13:2: "seat, and great authority."
Revelation 13:4: "dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshiped"
Revelation 13:5: "and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two"
Revelation 13:7: "to overcome them: and power was given him over all"
Revelation 13:12: "he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before"
Revelation 14:18: "the altar, which had power over fire; and cried"
Revelation 16:9: "name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and"
Revelation 17:12: "no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one"
