The verbe ischyō (to have strength) in the Gospels-Actes

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament)


Legend:
Red color: to have strength in a negative sentence

Matthew

5: 13"You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It has not strength (ischyō) for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.
8: 28When he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demoniacs coming out of the tombs met him. They were so fierce that no one had strength to (ischyō) pass that way.
9: 12But when he heard this, he said, "Those having strength (ischyō) have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
26: 40Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping; and he said to Peter, "So, you did not have strength (ischyō) to stay awake with me one hour?

Mark

2: 17When Jesus heard this, he said to them, "Those having strength (ischyō) have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners."
5: 4for he had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength (ischyō) to subdue him.
9: 18and whenever it seizes him, it dashes him down; and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they did not have strength (ischyō) to do so."
14: 37He came and found them sleeping; and he said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? You did not have strength (ischyō) to keep awake one hour?

Luke

6: 48That one is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when a flood arose, the river burst against that house but did not have strength (ischyō) to shake it, because it had been well built.
8: 43Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years; and though she had spent all she had on physicians, no one did have strength (ischyō) to cure her.
13: 24"Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not have strength (ischyō).
14: 6And they did not have strength (ischyō) to reply to this.
14: 29Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and does not have strength (ischyō) to finish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him,
14: 30saying, 'This fellow began to build and did not have strength (ischyō) to finish.'
16: 3Then the manager said to himself, 'What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I do not have strength (ischyō) enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.
20: 26And they did not have strength (ischyō) in the presence of the people to trap him by what he said; and being amazed by his answer, they became silent.

John

21: 6He said to them, "Cast the net to the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they cast it, and now they did not have strength (ischyō) to haul it in because there were so many fish.

Acts

6: 10But they did not have strength (ischyō) to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.
15: 10Now therefore why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we had strength (ischyō) to bear?
19: 16Then the man with the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered them all, and so had strength (ischyō) against them that they fled out of the house naked and wounded.
19: 20So the word of the Lord grew mightily and had strength (ischyō).
25: 7When he arrived, the Jews who had gone down from Jerusalem surrounded him, bringing many serious charges against him, which they had not strength (ischyō) to prove.
27: 16By running under the lee of a small island called Cauda we barely had strength (ischyō) to get the ship's boat under control.