G1849
ἐξουσία
exousia
ex-oo-see'-ah
Noun Feminine
from G1832 (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.
- power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases
- leave or permission
- physical and mental power
- the ability or strength with which one is endued, which he either possesses or exercises
- the power of authority (influence) and of right (privilege)
- the power of rule or government (the power of him whose will and commands must be submitted to by others and obeyed)
- universally
- authority over mankind
- specifically
- the power of judicial decisions
- of authority to manage domestic affairs
- metonymically
- a thing subject to authority or rule 4c
- jurisdiction
- one who possesses authority 4c
- a ruler, a human magistrate 4c
- the leading and more powerful among created beings superior to man, spiritual potentates
- a sign of the husband's authority over his wife
- the veil with which propriety required a women to cover herself
- the sign of regal authority, a crown
- universally
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