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, im-posʹi-b’l (vb. ἀδυνατέω, adunatéō; adj ἀδύνατος, adúnatos): “To be impossible” is the tr of adunateō, “to be powerless,” “impotent” (Mt 17:20; Lk 1:37, RV “void of power”); adunatos, “powerless,” etc, is trd “impossible” (Mt 19:26; Mk 10:27; Lk 18:27; He 6:4, 18; 11:6; “impossible” in He 6:4 is in RV transferred to ver 6); anéndektos, “not to be received” or “accepted,” is also trd “impossible” (Lk 17:1). In several of these passages it is affirmed that “nothing is impossible