# G1849 ἐξουσία

ἐξουσία (exousía), Strong’s G1849: privilege, i.e. (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of… KJV…

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*exousía* — privilege, i.e. (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of…

KJV: authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power, right, strength

Derived from [ἔξεστι éxesti](https://besorah.bible/word/G1832) (so also neuter present participle of the same)

Occurs 153 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 7:29](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/7?v=29) — for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes.
- [Matthew 8:9](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/8?v=9) — For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell…
- [Matthew 9:6](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/9?v=6) — But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins—” (then he said to the paralytic)…
- [Matthew 9:8](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/9?v=8) — But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
- [Matthew 10:1](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/10?v=1) — He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal…
- [Matthew 21:23](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/21?v=23) — When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and…
- [Matthew 21:24](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/21?v=24) — Yeshua answered them, “I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what…
- [Matthew 21:27](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/21?v=27) — They answered Yeshua, and said, “We don’t know.” He also said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do…
- [Matthew 28:18](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/28?v=18) — Yeshua came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
- [Mark 1:22](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/1?v=22) — They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.