ἐξουσία

From ἐξοντ- (exont-, participle) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, verbal adjective suffix), from ἔξεστι (éxesti, “it is possible, it is allowed”).

ἐξουσῐ́ᾱ • (exousíā) f (genitive ἐξουσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. power, means, license, or authority to do something.
2. power, authority
3. office, title
4. means, resources
5. pomp

• → Coptic: ⲉⲝⲟⲩⲥⲓⲁ (eksousia)
• Greek: εξουσία (exousía)

• “ἐξουσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐξουσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐξουσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G1849 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • authorisation idem, page 53.
  • authority idem, page 53.
  • competence idem, page 151.
  • connivance idem, page 161.
  • consent idem, page 162.
  • control idem, page 170.
  • facility idem, page 300.
  • faculty idem, page 301.
  • freedom idem, page 344.
  • immunity idem, page 418.
  • jurisdiction idem, page 466.
  • latitude idem, page 478.
  • leave idem, page 483.
  • liberty idem, page 488.
  • licence idem, page 488.
  • might idem, page 528.
  • power idem, page 630.
  • sanction idem, page 733.
  • scope idem, page 740.
  • strength idem, page 824.
  • sufferance idem, page 835.
  • toleration idem, page 880.
  • warrant idem, page 964.
• ἐξουσία - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.