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Strong G770G770Gἀσθενέω

be weak: weak

One of the 2 senses of Strong G770

Transliteration
astheneō
Pronunciation
as-then-eh'-o
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G772; to be feeble (in any sense): - be diseased impotent folk (man) (be) sick (be be made) weak.

Detailed definition

ἀσθενέω, -ῶ
( ἀσθενής) [in LXX chiefly for כָּשַׁל;]
to be weak, feeble: Act.20:35, Rom.8:3, 2Co.11:21 12:10 13:4 13:9; with dative, πίστει (Cremer, 527), Rom.4:19 14:1; same implied, Rom.14:2, 21, 1Co.8:11-12, 2Co.11:29; εἰς, 2Co.13:3. Specif., of bodily debility, to be sick: Mat.25:36, 39, Luk.4:40, Jhn.4:46 5:3, 7 5:13 11:1-3, 6 Act.9:37, Php.2:26-27, 2Ti.4:20, Jas.5:14; οἱ ἀσθενοῦντες, the sick: Mat.10:8 (MM, see word), Mrk.6:56, Luk.9:2, Act.19:12.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G770G appears in 12 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • be6
  • weak6

First verses

  1. Acts 20:35
    I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
  2. Romans 4:19
    And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
  3. Romans 8:3
    For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
  4. Romans 14:1
    Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
  5. Romans 14:2
    For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
  6. 1 Corinthians 8:11
    And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
  7. 1 Corinthians 8:12
    But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
  8. 2 Corinthians 11:21
    I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
  9. 2 Corinthians 12:10
    Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
  10. 2 Corinthians 13:3
    Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
  11. 2 Corinthians 13:4
    For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
  12. 2 Corinthians 13:9
    For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
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Included with: ἀσθέν-εια, ἡ,
want of strength, weakness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.3, etc.: in _plural_, ἰσχύες καὶ ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 618d)]; especially feebleness, sickliness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.135; ἀ. τοῦ γήρως 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.3.2, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 330e; σωμάτων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.36, etc.)]
2 disease, sickness, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.49 (_plural_), “OGI” 244.11 (Daphne, 2nd c.BC), etc.)]; δι᾽ ἀσθένειαν[NT (NT.Gal.4.13.)]
3 ἀ. βίου poverty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.47, 8.51.)]
4 in moral sense, feebleness, weakness, τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 854a, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1150b19; τοῦ ἀκροατοῦ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1419a18.—Rare in poetry, as 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 269. -έω,)] to be weak, feeble, sickly, ἀ. μέλη to be weak in limb, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 228; τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 209e)]; ἀ. ἀσθένειαν [NT+5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Chrm.” 155b: _absolutely_, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 274, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.47, NT.Matt.10.8, etc.)]; ἠσθένησε he fell sick, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.13; ἀσθενέων)]sick man, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 12 (9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc. says that μαλακίζεσθχι is used of women))]; ἠσθενηκότα[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 31.13.7.)]
2 to be needy, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 636)]; ἠσθενηκότες, of those unable to pay taxes, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 188 (1st c.BC).)]
3 with infinitive, to be too weak to do a thing, not to be able.., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 2.15.5; εἰς τὸ θεωρεῖν 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.8.4.)]
4 decline, ἠσθένησεν ἡ ἡμέρα εἰς τὴν ἑσπέραν[LXX (LXX.Judg.19.9.)]