dunamai expresses whether a person, thing, or circumstance has the capacity or possibility for an action or result.

The attested use marks capacity or possibility for an action, whether affirming what people, writings, or other agents can do or denying what they cannot do. It occurs in practical actions such as understanding, speaking, enduring, proving, and saving, as well as in statements that an act or outcome is impossible under the stated conditions.

1. Capacity or possibility for an action or outcome · dominant

   Present forms mark whether an action is possible in the surrounding clause: in 1 Corinthians 14:31 the APB renders that all are able to prophesy one by one, while in 1 Corinthians 2:14 it renders the natural person as not able to understand. The same capacity is attributed to things or agents in Acts 20:32, where the word of grace is described as able to build up and give an inheritance, and denied in 1 Corinthians 15:50, where flesh and blood cannot inherit. Other clauses state practical constraints: Acts 24:13 says accusers cannot prove their charges, and Acts 27:43 identifies those able to swim.

   1 Corinthians 14:311 Corinthians 2:14Acts 20:321 Corinthians 15:50Acts 24:13Acts 27:43

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the term with “able,” “can,” “cannot,” “could,” or “unable.” These renderings confirm the clauses' modal force rather than fixing a separate English equivalent in every occurrence.