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Powerful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Having great physical or mechanical power; strong; forcible; mighty; as a powerful army or navy; a powerful engine.

2. Having great moral power; forcible to persuade or convince the mind; as a powerful reason or argument.

3. Possessing great political and military power; strong in extent of dominion or national resources; potent; as a powerful monarch or prince; a powerful nation.

4. Efficacious; possessing or exerting great force or producing great effects; as a powerful medicine.

5. In general, able to produce great effects; exerting great force or energy; as a powerful eloquence.

6. The word of God is quick and powerful Hebrews 4:12 .

7. Strong; intense; as a powerful heat or light.

Powerful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.

2. Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.

Powerfully [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With great force or energy; potently; mightily; with great effect; forcibly; either in a physical or moral sense. Certain medicines operate powerfully on the stomach; the practice of virtue is powerfully recommended by its utility.

Powerfulness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The quality of having or exerting great power; force; power; might.

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Genesis 18:18

Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 26:16

And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

Exodus 1:9

And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.

Joshua 23:9

For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.

The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.

Judges 14:6

And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.

and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

1 Samuel 9:1

Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.

Now there was a Benjamite, a powerful man, whose name was Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin.

2 Samuel 22:18

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.

2 Chronicles 26:8

And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.

The Ammonites brought tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as the border of Egypt, for he had become exceedingly powerful.

2 Chronicles 26:13

And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

Under their authority was an army of 307,500 trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.

2 Chronicles 26:15

And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

And in Jerusalem he made skillfully designed devices to shoot arrows and catapult large stones from the towers and corners. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was helped tremendously so that he became powerful.

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

But when Uzziah grew powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 27:6

So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

So Jotham grew powerful because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.

Ezra 7:28

And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

and who has shown me favor before the king, his counselors, and all his powerful officials. And because the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, I took courage and gathered the leaders of Israel to return with me.

Esther 9:4

For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

For Mordecai exercised great power in the palace, and his fame spread throughout the provinces as he became more and more powerful.

Esther 10:2

And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?

Job 5:15

But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.

Psalms 18:17

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.

Psalms 29:4

The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.

Psalms 148:8

Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word:

lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,

Isaiah 18:2

That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.