TRV
ἰσχύω
How the KJV Renders It
TranslationStrong’s lists the renderings but not their weight. These are counted from the King James text of the tagged verses — the bar under each is how often the translators actually reached for it. Select one to filter the occurrences below.
Grammatical Forms
MorphologyIn the Greek New Testament, this word appears as a verb across 29 occurrences, inflected in 13 grammatical forms — each row is one form, and the bar is how often it is that form. Select any form to read what each part of its name means, and to filter the occurrence list to it.
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ἴσχυσεν
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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ἰσχύει
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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ἴσχυσαν
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ἴσχυον
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ἰσχύσαμεν
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ἴσχυεν
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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ἰσχύω
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
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ἰσχύοντες
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Nominative
- The subject of the verb.
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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ἰσχύσατε
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ἴσχυσας
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
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ἰσχύσουσιν
- Future
- Action yet to take place.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ἰσχύειν
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
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ἰσχύοντος
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Genitive
- Possession or source — often "of".
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
Biblical Distribution
DistributionAppears in 29 verses across 10 of the 27 books. Most frequent in Luke (8 verses); never once in the other 17.
Every Occurrence
ConcordanceEvery verse where the word is tagged in the King James text. Filter by book, by the English word the translators chose, by grammatical form, or search within the verses.
Sources. Definition and numbering: James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). Morphology: STEPBible / Tyndale House (CC BY). Verse tagging: the King James text keyed to Strong’s numbers. Every count on this page is computed from the tagged corpus, not estimated.