Adjective ischyros (strong) in the New Testament

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

12: 29Or how can one enter a strong (ischyros) man's house and plunder his property, without first tying up the strong (ischyros) man? Then indeed the house can be plundered.
14: 30But when he noticed the strong (ischyros) wind, he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, "Lord, save me!"

Mark

3: 27But no one can enter a strong (ischyros) man's house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong (ischyros) man; then indeed the house can be plundered.

Luke

11: 21When a strong (ischyros) man, fully armed, guards his castle, his property is safe.
15: 14When he had spent everything, a strong (ischyros) famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need.

1 John

2: 14I write to you, children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you are strong (ischyros) and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

1 Corinthians

1: 27But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong (ischyros);
4: 10We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong (ischyros). You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

2 Corinthians

10: 10For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong (ischyros), but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible."

Hebrews

5: 7In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with strong (ischyros) cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
6: 18That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong (ischyros) consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
11: 34quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong (ischyros), waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

Revelation

5: 2and I saw a strong (ischyros) angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?"
6: 15Then the kings of the earth and the magnates and the generals and the rich and the strong (ischyros), and everyone, slave and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,
10: 1And I saw another strong (ischyros) angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.
18: 2He called out with a strong (ischyros) voice, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul bird, a haunt of every foul and hateful beast.
18: 8therefore her plagues will come in a single day - pestilence and mourning and famine - and she will be burned with fire; for strong (ischyros) is the Lord God who judges her."
18: 10they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, "Alas, alas, the great city, Babylon, the strong (ischyros) city! For in one hour your judgment has come."
18: 21Then a strong (ischyros) angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "With such violence Babylon the great city will be thrown down, and will be found no more;
19: 6Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of strong (ischyros) thunder peals, crying out, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.
19: 18to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of the strong (ischyros), the flesh of horses and their riders - flesh of all, both free and slave, both small and great."