The Greek dynatos means powerful, able, mighty, or possible. It describes someone or something that has the dynamis (power) to accomplish what they intend. Applied to God, it is one of the most sweeping affirmations of divine omnipotence in Scripture.
Dynatos anchors some of Scripture's most hope-sustaining declarations. When Mary sings the Magnificat — 'the Mighty One (dynatos) has done great things for me' (Luke 1:49) — she is not just praising God's general power but the specific, personal, impossible-made-possible power of the Incarnation. When Jesus declares 'with God all things are possible (dynata)' (Matthew 19:26), He is not offering a vague optimism but a theological statement: God's power transcends all human impossibility. Romans 4:21 attributes Abraham's faith to being 'fully convinced that God had power (dynatos) to do what he had promised.' This is the grammar of biblical faith: God's dynatos character becomes the ground of our confidence when circumstances scream impossibility.